latency vs potency

latency and potency both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
latency	Yes	No	No	No
potency	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, potency is a hypernym of latency; that is, potency is a word with a broader meaning than latency:

Other hypernyms of latency include potential, potentiality.

latency (noun)	potency (noun)
the state of being not yet evident or active	capacity to produce strong physiological or chemical effects
the time that elapses between a stimulus and the response to it	the power or right to give orders or make decisions
(computer science) the time it takes for a specific block of data on a data track to rotate around to the read/write head	the state of being potent; a male's capacity to have sexual intercourse
	the inherent capacity for coming into being