Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922.
Class IV. Words Relating to the Intellectual FacultiesDivision (II) Communication of Ideas
Section II. Modes of Communication
526. Latency.
snake in the grass (pitfall) [See Pitfall]; secret [See Secret].
darkness, invisibility, imperceptibility.
ALLUSION, insinuation, inference, implication; innuendo [See Information]; adumbration.
LATENT INFLUENCE, invisible government, power behind the throne, friend at court, wire-puller [colloq.], king-maker; “a destiny that shapes our ends” [Hamlet].
laugh in one’s sleeve; keep back (conceal) [See Concealment].
INVOLVE, imply, implicate, connote, import, understand, allude to, infer, leave an inference; mysticize [rare], symbolize; whisper (conceal) [See Concealment].
unapparent, unknown, unseen [See Vision]; in the background; invisible [See Invisibility]; indiscoverable, dark; impenetrable (unintelligible) [See Unintelligibility]; unspied, unsuspected.
undeveloped, unsolved, unexplained, untraced, undiscovered [See Judgment]untracked, unexplored, uninvented.
UNEXPRESSED, unmentioned, unpronounced, unsaid, unwritten, unpublished, unbreathed, untalked of, untold [See Information], unsung, unexposed, unproclaimed, undisclosed [See Disclosure], not expressed, tacit.
INDIRECT, crooked, inferential; by inference, by implication; implicit; constructive; allusive, covert, muffled; steganographic; understood, underhand, underground; concealed; under cover [See Concealment]; delitescent.