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potentiality

noun

po·​ten·​ti·​al·​i·​ty pə-ˌten(t)-shē-ˈa-lə-tē How to pronounce potentiality (audio)
plural potentialities
1
: the ability to develop or come into existence
2

Example Sentences

would like to see a colony on the moon as an actuality and not merely a potentiality
Recent Examples on the Web That could also determine whether there are charges in connection with the other statutes there -- potentiality (ph). ABC News, 28 Aug. 2022 And that one, when connected to that other one, sparks something: an energy, a knowledge, a potentiality that is so much bigger than that one. Evan Nicole Brown, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 July 2022 What looks like emptiness is actually potentiality. Max Norman, WSJ, 4 Feb. 2022 This legislation established the federal drug classification schedule, which categorized certain drugs within five total groups based on their medical use and potentiality for abuse. David Cannady, sun-sentinel.com, 23 Sep. 2021 Possibly, but entwined with this theme of curiosity is the potentiality that these tales are begging readers to also consider the importance of obedience and trust. Sarah Schutte, National Review, 12 Sep. 2021 Despite watching Cunningham’s performance in the final minutes, Boynton stopped short of likening Cunningham to Mariano Rivera when asked about that potentiality postgame. Jordan Guskey, The Indianapolis Star, 20 Mar. 2021 Historically Black Colleges and Universities are both incubators and accelerators of their students’ talent, intelligence and potentiality in a daily immersion in their heritage and investment in their future. Janelle Harris Dixon, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Feb. 2021 The cartoon landscape is a model of the marvelous that’s an alibi for something much more malign: a world where infinite potentiality is experienced as terror. Adam Thirlwell, The New York Review of Books, 3 Aug. 2020 See More

Word History

First Known Use

1625, in the meaning defined at sense 1

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The first known use of potentiality was in 1625

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