potentiality
IPA: pʌtˈɛnʃiˈæɫʌti
noun
- (chiefly uncountable) The quality of being, or having potential.
- (countable) An instance of potential: any given possibility.
- An inherent capacity for growth or development.
- An aptitude amenable to development; capability.
- (philosophy) A possibility or capacity to be something, as opposed to an actuality describing what something actually is at present.
- (physics) Quantum potential.
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Examples of "potentiality" in Sentences
- It is, rather, a space of potentiality.
- But that potentiality is not made easy of accomplishment by reason of its geography.
- Anyone with an elementary grip on the notion of potentiality can see that the first kind of overkill objection fails.
- The ending of this living potentiality is considered wrong for many Christians (Catholics, eastern orthodox) and most Muslims.
- He felt a sharp gradation between himself and his shipmates, and was wise enough to realize that the difference lay in potentiality rather than achievement.
- If the notion of potentiality is ruled out of order as Rev has apparently done in a related discussion, doesn't his position imply that a two or three day-old infant is not entitled to legal protection?
- Nevertheless, as celestial revolutions are motions, albeit eternal ones, they include some component of potentiality, which is actualised in the motion, and hence this potential component is in need of an actuality as a mover.
- But he lived onto propound his extraordinary theory of "potentiality" -- that medicines gained strength by being diluted -- and his even more extraordinary theory that all chronic diseases are caused either by the itch, syphilis, or fig-wart disease, or are brought on by medicines.
- _Metaph. _ ix, 20, everything is known as it is in act, and not as it is in potentiality, knowledge primarily and essentially regards being in act, and secondarily regards being in potentiality, which is not knowable of itself, but inasmuch as that in whose power it exists is known.
- “I have made game of my goose, at any rate, and given Bessie Lee a good lesson, on what our old schoolmaster would call the potentiality of mankind — but come,” she added, for though rather ashamed to confess her purpose when she knew ridicule must be braved, courage was easier to Isabella than subterfuge, “Come along with us to Effie's, and I will tell you the joke I played off on Jupe.”