potentiality

Noun

Meaning

The quality or state of being potential; possibility, not actuality; inherent capability or disposition, not actually exhibited.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

potential capability potency capableness power energy force might practicability risk ability capacity chance opportunity probability
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Antonyms

case fact existence failure inability criterion
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Hypernyms

possibility aptitude possibleness

Hyponyms

range compass reach chance prospect grasp

Examples

The musical scale is a convention which circumscribes the area of potentiality and permits construction within those limits in its own particular symmetry. Iannis Xenakis

The Triad has a special beauty and fairness beyond all numbers, primarily because it is the very first to make actual the potentiality of the Monad - oddness, perfection, proportionality, unification, limit. Iamblichus

man is by nature designed to live in the polis, the highest form of koinonia, community; that is man's end or goal if he achieves the full potentiality of his nature. Moses I. Finley

Every form of happiness if one, every desire is driven by the same motor--by our love for a single value, for the highest potentiality of our own existence--and every achievement is an expression of it. Ayn Rand

It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality has become a thing of the past. Hannah Arendt

Potentiality knocks on the door of my heart. [On Seeing The 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning ]. Haruki Murakami

Close letter words and terms

potentialism potentialist potentialistic potentialization potentialize potentially