latency

noun

1. 1.The state of being latent.
2. 2.A delay, a period between the initiation of something and the occurrence.
3. 3.The delay between a stimulus and the response it triggers in an organism.
4. 4.A stage in Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic theory of the psychosexual development of children where children become asexual until their sexual desires come back at puberty.