Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The quality or condition of being latescent; the state of becoming obscured or lost to view.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A slight withdrawal from view or knowledge.

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  • noun rare The condition of being latescent; obscurity

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  • In other words it is the negative quality of passiveness either in recoverable latency or insipient latescence.

    What Is Man? and Other Essays Mark Twain 1872

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