potentiality
- noun
- /pəˌtɛnʃiˈælɪti/
- The young artist's work is filled with potentiality, hinting at her ability to create masterpieces in the future.
- pure potentiality
- human potentiality
- full potentiality
And then GED says potentiality, what is able to be, to become.
- And then GED says potentiality, what is able to be, to become.
- And their expertise is germane when potentiality is invoked to make moral claims about bodies.
- I do not believe that that's correct yet to start with some potentiality that becomes actuality.
- It's really a potentiality, a, a, a new possibility in our lives.
- It was you agreeing to actualize a potentiality.
- That's the field of pure potentiality.
- A child is a not yet finished and formed human being potentiality, as Nietzsche's going to say, a new start.
- Now you're on the right side of the universal law that will provide for you, activate your own gifts of potentiality to share and to give.
- So, so their potentialities, their predispositions, and then we live through enacting them as we're moving then through life, right?
- So that movie soul pretty brilliant depiction of a potentiality of the soul level experience.
- This, this pure thing that is just pure potentiality.
- And therefore consciousness, what is up to is exploring all of his potentialities.
Examples
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In education, teachers strive to nurture the potentiality of each student, encouraging them to achieve their best.
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They understood the potentiality of human beings, their limitations, and the predicament in which they live.
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"No one knows the full potentiality of any given moment, for good or for evil."
Academic text (1992) -
So to give you an example, he talks about potentiality of power.
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It's really a potentiality, a, a, a new possibility in our lives.
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Our research in infant potentiality is the model of the field.
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It is the potentiality before creation.
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And I am convinced that there is as much developmental potentiality in one as in the other.
Academic text (1993) -
In history, the potentialities of the Church have more and more been brought into actuality by Christ.
Academic text (2013) -
It fully realizes the technical and expressive potentiality of Roman concrete construction.
Synonyms
The ability to develop or succeed in the future
Ability to do something or develop a skill
Natural ability of something to develop or come into being
Having the chance to be useful or successful in the future
The quality of having the skill or power to do something
The ability to do work and handle tasks well
The fact that something can happen or be true
Antonyms
How Promising
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Potentiality comes from the Latin word potentia, which means 'power' or 'ability' and is the same root behind the English word potent and the idea of 'power'. So potentiality is the 'power' or ability inside someone or something that can grow or become real in the future.