latency vs potential

latency and potential both are nouns.

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

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

Other hypernyms of latency include potency, potentiality.

latency (noun)	potential (noun)
the state of being not yet evident or active	the difference in electrical charge between two points in a circuit expressed in volts
the time that elapses between a stimulus and the response to it	the inherent capacity for coming into being
(computer science) the time it takes for a specific block of data on a data track to rotate around to the read/write head

latency (adjective)	potential (adjective)
	existing in possibility
	expected to become or be; in prospect