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1. (n.) latency period
the stage of personality development, from about five years of age to the beginning of puberty, during which sexual urges appear to lie dormant.

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1. (noun) latency stage, latency phase, latency period
(psychoanalysis) the fourth period (from about age 5 or 6 until puberty) during which sexual interests are supposed to be sublimated into other activities

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