All 3 Uses of
latent
in
A Separate Peace
- There was a latent freshness in the air, as though spring were returning in the middle of the summer.
p. 56.3latent = not yet fully active
- I jerked the jug to my mouth and took a huge gulp of cider in relief, and the violence latent in the day drifted away;
p. 135.2latent = potentially existing but not presently active
- ...and there was a certain strained hospitality in the way both the faculty and students worked to get along with the leathery recruiting officers who kept appearing on the campus. There was no latent snobbery in us; we didn't find any in them. It was only that we could feel a deep and sincere difference between us and them,
p. 159.2 *latent = unexpressed (potentially existing, but not active)
Definition:
potentially existing but not presently evident or active