1. (psychoanalysis) the fourth period (from about age 5 or 6 until puberty) during which sexual interests are supposed to be sublimated into other activities; [syn: latency stage, latency phase, latency period]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
latency stage
n 1: (psychoanalysis) the fourth period (from about age 5 or 6
until puberty) during which sexual interests are supposed
to be sublimated into other activities [syn: latency
stage, latency phase, latency period]