potentiality vs latency

potentiality and latency both are nouns.

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

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

Other hyponyms of potentiality include chance, prospect.

potentiality (noun)	latency (noun)
an aptitude that may be developed	the state of being not yet evident or active
the inherent capacity for coming into being	the time that elapses between a stimulus and the response to it
	(computer science) the time it takes for a specific block of data on a data track to rotate around to the read/write head