Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (18701938). Rogets International Thesaurus. 1922.
Class IV. Words Relating to the Intellectual Faculties Division (II) Communication of Ideas
Section II. Modes of Communication
NOUN: LATENCY, inexpression; hidden -, occult- meaning; obscurity ( unintelligibility) [See Unintelligibility]; occultness, mystery, cabala or cabbala, cabalism, occultism, mysticism, symbolism, anagoge; silence ( taciturnity) [See Taciturnity]; concealment [See Concealment]; more than meets the -eye, - ear; Delphic oracle; le dessous des cartes [ F.], undercurrent; something rotten in the state of Denmark [ Hamlet]. snake in the grass ( pitfall) [See Pitfall]; secret [See Secret].
darkness, invisibility, imperceptibility.
ALLUSION, insinuation, inference, implication; innuendo [See Information]; adumbration.
LATENT INFLUENCE, invisible government, power behind the throne, friend at court, wire-puller [ colloq.], king-maker; a destiny that shapes our ends [ Hamlet].
VERB: BE LATENT &c. adj.; lurk, smolder or smoulder, underlie, make no sign; escape -observation, - detection, - recognition; lie hid [See Concealment].
laugh in ones sleeve; keep back ( conceal) [See Concealment].
INVOLVE, imply, implicate, connote, import, understand, allude to, infer, leave an inference; mysticize [ rare], symbolize; whisper ( conceal) [See Concealment].
ADJECTIVE: LATENT; lurking &c. v.; secret, occult, anagogic or anagogical, cabalistic or cabalistical, symbolic, esoteric, recondite, veiled, symbolic, cryptic or cryptical; mystic, mystical; implied &c. v.; dormant; abeyant.
unapparent, unknown, unseen [See Vision]; in the background; invisible [See Invisibility]; indiscoverable, dark; impenetrable ( unintelligible) [See Unintelligibility]; unspied, unsuspected.
undeveloped, unsolved, unexplained, untraced, undiscovered [See Judgment]untracked, unexplored, uninvented.
UNEXPRESSED, unmentioned, unpronounced, unsaid, unwritten, unpublished, unbreathed, untalked of, untold [See Information], unsung, unexposed, unproclaimed, undisclosed [See Disclosure], not expressed, tacit.
INDIRECT, crooked, inferential; by inference, by implication; implicit; constructive; allusive, covert, muffled; steganographic; understood, underhand, underground; concealed; under cover [See Concealment]; delitescent.
ADVERB: SECRETLY [See Concealment]; by a side wind; sub silentio [ L.]; in the background; behind the scenes, behind ones back; on the tip of ones tongue; between the lines; by a mutual understanding; sub rosa [ L.]; below the surface.
QUOTATIONS: Thereby hangs a tale.
As You Like It Tacitum vivit sub pectore vulnus.Vergil