latent hostility

1. 1.

   feelings of hostility that are not manifest

   “he could sense her latent hostility to him”

   “the diplomats' first concern was to reduce international tensions”

   Synonymstension

   Broaderhostility

Questions about latent hostility

What does latent hostility mean?

latent hostility means "feelings of hostility that are not manifest".

What is another word for latent hostility?

Close synonyms include tension. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is latent hostility a common word?

latent hostility is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.