latency

(countable, uncountable) Concealment; the state of being latent; the state of being hidden.
(countable, uncountable) Dormancy; the state of being inactive.
(countable, uncountable) A delay, an interval between the initiation of something and the occurrence.
(countable, uncountable) The time delay between a request for data or action and the beginning of the response or execution, often measured to assess system performance.
(countable, uncountable) The delay between a stimulus and the response it triggers in an organism.
(countable, uncountable) 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.