potency vs latency

potency and latency both are nouns.

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

As nouns, latency is a hyponym of potency; that is, latency is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than potency:

Other hyponyms of potency include chance, prospect.

potency (noun)	latency (noun)
capacity to produce strong physiological or chemical effects	the state of being not yet evident or active
the power or right to give orders or make decisions	the time that elapses between a stimulus and the response to it
the state of being potent; a male's capacity to have sexual intercourse	(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 inherent capacity for coming into being