incubation

As a verb incubating

is .

As a noun incubation is

sitting on eggs for the purpose of hatching young; a brooding on, or keeping warm, to develop the life within, by any process.

As nouns the difference between incubation and latency

is that incubation is sitting on eggs for the purpose of hatching young; a brooding on, or keeping warm, to develop the life within, by any process while latency is the state of being latent.

Latention is likely misspelled.

Latention has no English definition.

As a noun incubation

is sitting on eggs for the purpose of hatching young; a brooding on, or keeping warm, to develop the life within, by any process.

As nouns the difference between intubation and incubation

is that intubation is the introduction of a tube into an organ to keep it open, as into the larynx in croup while incubation is sitting on eggs for the purpose of hatching young; a brooding on, or keeping warm, to develop the life within, by any process.

As nouns the difference between incubation and mouthbrooding

is that incubation is sitting on eggs for the purpose of hatching young; a brooding on, or keeping warm, to develop the life within, by any process while mouthbrooding is oral incubation; the care given by some animals, especially fishes, to their offspring by holding them in the mouth for extended periods of time.