Roget's Thesaurus

#526. Latency. Implication

Nouns

latency, inexpression; hidden meaning, occult meaning; occultness, mystery, cabala, anagoge; silence etc. (taciturnity) 585; concealment etc. 528; more than meets the eye, more than meets the ear; Delphic oracle; le dessous des cartes [Fr.], undercurrent. implication, logical implication; logical consequence; entailment. allusion, insinuation; innuendo etc. 527; adumbration; something rotten in the state of Denmark [Hamlet]. snake in the grass etc. (pitfall) 667; secret etc. 533. darkness, invisibility, imperceptibility.

Verbs

be latent etc. adj.; lurk, smolder, underlie, make no sign; escape observation, escape detection, escape recognition; lie hid etc. 528. laugh in one's sleeve; keep back etc. (conceal) 528. involve, imply, understand, allude to, infer, leave an inference; entail; whisper etc. (conceal) 528. [understand the implication] read between the lines.

Adjectives

latent; lurking etc. v.; secret etc. 528; occult; implied etc. v.; dormant; abeyant. unapparent, unknown, unseen etc. 441; in the background; invisible etc. 447; indiscoverable, dark; impenetrable etc. (unintelligible) 519; unspied, unsuspected. unsaid, unwritten, unpublished, unbreathed, untalked of, untold etc. 527, unsung, unexposed, unproclaimed, undisclosed etc. 529, unexpressed; not expressed, tacit. undeveloped, solved, unexplained, untraced, undiscovered etc. 480a, untracked, unexplored, uninvented. indirect, crooked, inferential; by inference, by implication; implicit; constructive; allusive, covert, muffled; steganographic; understood, underhand, underground; delitescent, concealed etc. 528.

Adverbs

by a side wind; sub silentio [Lat.]; in the background; behind the scenes, behind one's back; on the tip of one's tongue; secretly etc. 528; between the lines.

Phrases

thereby hangs a tale [As You Like It]; tacitum vivit sub pectore vulnus [Lat.] [Vergil]; where there's smoke, there's fire.