latent ability
Hidden skill within
A latent ability is a capacity that exists but hasn't yet emerged or been developed.
The word latent suggests something dormant, waiting to be activated: She had a latent ability for languages that only surfaced when she moved abroad.
The phrase often implies untapped potential—talent that circumstances haven't yet drawn out.
- potentialLatent capacity for development
- untapped potentialAbilities not yet utilized
- dormantInactive but capable
- hiddenKept out of sight
- hidden talentUnrecognized natural aptitude
talent · untapped · gift · sleeping · innate · raw · diamond in the rough · rough diamond · spark · promise · budding · late bloomer · unrealized · capacity · aptitude · knack · flair · seed
- inner qualitiesintegrity, wisdom, courage, compassion, resilience
existence
latent abilityinability
Lack of capacity
incapacity · incompetence · ineptitude · talentlessness · deficiency
latent, latency, latently, ability, abilities, disable, disability, enable, enabled