List of 426 Sets of Synonyms - How they Differ - Total of 2307 Words - 217

SYNONYMS: latent, dormant, quiescent.
These adjectives mean present or in existence but not active or manifest.

What is latent is present but not visible or apparent: latent energy; latent ability. His critical remark immediately awakened all her latent hostility.
Dormant evokes the idea of sleep; the term applies to what is inactive or in suspended animation: a dormant volcano. Her enormous talents were dormant.
Persons or things are quiescent when they cease to be active; sometimes---but not always---the term suggests temporary inactivity: For a time, the whale lay quiescent.