525} latency, inexpression†; hidden meaning, occult meaning;
occultness, mystery, cabala†, anagoge†; silence &c (taciturnity) 585;
concealment &c 528; more than meets the eye, more than meets the ear;
Delphic oracle; le dessous des cartes [Fr.], undercurrent.
implication, logical implication; logical consequence; entailment.
allusion, insinuation; innuendo &c 527; adumbration; something
rotten in the state of Denmark [Hamlet].
snake in the grass &c (pitfall) 667; secret &c 533.
darkness, invisibility, imperceptibility.
V. be latent &c adj.; lurk, smolder, underlie, make no sign; escape
observation, escape detection, escape recognition; lie hid &c 528.
laugh in one's sleeve; keep back &c (conceal) 528.
involve, imply, understand, allude to, infer, leave an inference;
entail; whisper &c (conceal) 528.
[understand the implication] read between the lines.
Adj. latent; lurking &c v.; secret &c 528; occult; implied &c v.;
dormant; abeyant.
unapparent, unknown, unseen &c 441; in the background; invisible
&c 447; indiscoverable†, dark; impenetrable &c (unintelligible) 519;
unspied†, unsuspected.
unsaid, unwritten, unpublished, unbreathed†, untalked of†, untold
&c 527, unsung, unexposed, unproclaimed†, undisclosed &c 529,
unexpressed; not expressed, tacit.
undeveloped, solved, unexplained, untraced†, undiscovered &c 480.1,
untracked, unexplored, uninvented†.
indirect, crooked, inferential; by inference, by implication;
implicit; constructive; allusive, covert, muffled; steganographic†;
understood, underhand, underground; delitescent†, concealed &c 528.
Adv. by a side wind; sub silentio [Lat.]; in the background; behind the
scenes, behind one's back; on the tip of one's tongue; secretly &c 528;
between the lines.
Phr. thereby hangs a tale [As You Like It]; tacitum vivit sub pectore
vulnus [Lat.] [Vergil]; where there's smoke, there's fire.