Potentiality
noun
The capacity to become or do something in the future. It's like a hidden power or opportunity.
The small business has a huge potentiality for growth.
Often appears as...
- potentiality for
- potentiality of
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Formal
noun
In philosophy, a state of being that is not yet realized but could become actual under the right conditions.
In Aristotle's metaphysics, a thing's potentiality is what that thing could become.
Often appears as...
- potentiality in
- potentiality and actuality
Usage tips
Formal
Academic
noun
The capacity to become or do something in the future. It's like a hidden power or opportunity.
The small business has a huge potentiality for growth.
Often appears as...
- potentiality for
- potentiality of
Usage tips
Formal
noun
In philosophy, a state of being that is not yet realized but could become actual under the right conditions.
In Aristotle's metaphysics, a thing's potentiality is what that thing could become.
Often appears as...
- potentiality in
- potentiality and actuality
Usage tips
Formal
Academic
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Future Focus
Use 'potentiality' when discussing something that has a promising future or latent qualities.
Her innovative ideas hold great potentiality.
Pro Tip 2/3Hidden Qualities
'Potentiality' often implies qualities or abilities not yet seen but possible under the right circumstances.
The potentiality of this invention hasn’t been fully realized.
Pro Tip 3/3Optimistic Tone
The word 'potentiality' has a positive connotation, suggesting optimism about the future of a person or thing.
He speaks of the potentiality of renewable energy with much enthusiasm.
Pro Tip 1/3Future Focus
Use 'potentiality' when discussing something that has a promising future or latent qualities.
Her innovative ideas hold great potentiality.
Pro Tip 2/3Hidden Qualities
'Potentiality' often implies qualities or abilities not yet seen but possible under the right circumstances.
The potentiality of this invention hasn’t been fully realized.
Pro Tip 3/3Optimistic Tone
The word 'potentiality' has a positive connotation, suggesting optimism about the future of a person or thing.
He speaks of the potentiality of renewable energy with much enthusiasm.
Pro Tip 1/3Future Focus
Use 'potentiality' when discussing something that has a promising future or latent qualities.
Her innovative ideas hold great potentiality.
Pro Tip 2/3Hidden Qualities
'Potentiality' often implies qualities or abilities not yet seen but possible under the right circumstances.
The potentiality of this invention hasn’t been fully realized.
Pro Tip 3/3Optimistic Tone
The word 'potentiality' has a positive connotation, suggesting optimism about the future of a person or thing.
He speaks of the potentiality of renewable energy with much enthusiasm.
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Video examples
Shekhar Kapur: We are...
In this universe, and this existence, where we live with this duality of whether we exist or not and who are we, the stories we tell ourselves are the stories that define the potentialities
Video examples
Shekhar Kapur: We are...
In this universe, and this existence, where we live with this duality of whether we exist or not and who are we, the stories we tell ourselves are the stories that define the potentialities
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Quote examples
Kim Jong-un
North Korean Leader
All sectors of the national economy should make scrupulous arrangements for economic planning and guidance to boost production by tapping every possible reserve and potentiality, and work out in a scientific way the immediate plans and long-term strategies for stage-by-stage development and push ahead with them in a persistent manner.
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Wayne Dyer
American Psychologist
As the father of eight children, I'm quite convinced that each individual arrives here with their own unique personality. We are intended here from an invisible held of infinite potentiality. That which has no form, has no boundaries - it's the I that's in the ever-changing body.
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Thomas A. Edison
American Inventor
There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.
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John Foster Dulles
American Public Servant
Mankind will never win lasting peace so long as men use their full resources only in tasks of war. While we are yet at peace, let us mobilize the potentialities, particularly the moral and spiritual potentialities, which we usually reserve for war.
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Shekhar Kapur
Indian Actor
In this universe, and this existence, where we live with this duality of whether we exist or not and who are we, the stories we tell ourselves are the stories that define the potentialities of our existence. We are the stories we tell ourselves.
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Katherine Anne Porter
American Journalist
Our being is subject to all the chances of life. There are so many things we are capable of, that we could be or do. The potentialities are so great that we never, any of us, are more than one-fourth fulfilled.
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Joseph Campbell
American Author
What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.
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Walter Gropius
German Architect
Overwhelmed by the miraculous potentialities of the machine, our human greed has interfered with the biological cycle of human companionship which keeps the life of a community healthy.
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Matthew Tobin Anderson
American Author
I feel like it's important every once in a while to estrange ourselves from the familiar to remind ourselves of the potentialities of people, how many different ways there are of being.
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Ashley Montagu
English Scientist
By virtue of being born to humanity, every human being has a right to the development and fulfillment of his potentialities as a human being.
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Kim Jong-un
North Korean Leader
All sectors of the national economy should make scrupulous arrangements for economic planning and guidance to boost production by tapping every possible reserve and potentiality, and work out in a scientific way the immediate plans and long-term strategies for stage-by-stage development and push ahead with them in a persistent manner.
Quote examples
Wayne Dyer
American Psychologist
As the father of eight children, I'm quite convinced that each individual arrives here with their own unique personality. We are intended here from an invisible held of infinite potentiality. That which has no form, has no boundaries - it's the I that's in the ever-changing body.
Quote examples
Thomas A. Edison
American Inventor
There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.
Quote examples
John Foster Dulles
American Public Servant
Mankind will never win lasting peace so long as men use their full resources only in tasks of war. While we are yet at peace, let us mobilize the potentialities, particularly the moral and spiritual potentialities, which we usually reserve for war.
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Shekhar Kapur
Indian Actor
In this universe, and this existence, where we live with this duality of whether we exist or not and who are we, the stories we tell ourselves are the stories that define the potentialities of our existence. We are the stories we tell ourselves.
Quote examples
Katherine Anne Porter
American Journalist
Our being is subject to all the chances of life. There are so many things we are capable of, that we could be or do. The potentialities are so great that we never, any of us, are more than one-fourth fulfilled.
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Joseph Campbell
American Author
What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.
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Walter Gropius
German Architect
Overwhelmed by the miraculous potentialities of the machine, our human greed has interfered with the biological cycle of human companionship which keeps the life of a community healthy.
Quote examples
Matthew Tobin Anderson
American Author
I feel like it's important every once in a while to estrange ourselves from the familiar to remind ourselves of the potentialities of people, how many different ways there are of being.
Quote examples
Ashley Montagu
English Scientist
By virtue of being born to humanity, every human being has a right to the development and fulfillment of his potentialities as a human being.
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