MEANING
Hidden or concealed, especially when something lies dormant beneath an apparently ordinary surface.
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Something concealed continues beneath the visible surface.Describe an emotion, process, or threat that remains hidden beneath a calm surface.
Words that belong together
- remain delitescent
- delitescent infection
- hidden hostility
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A delitescent anger survived beneath his careful civility.
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A rare literary or technical adjective for something hidden or latent; it does not itself imply menace or disease.
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