Frompotential +‎-ity.

• (Received Pronunciation)IPA^(key): /pəˌtɛnʃiˈælɪti/

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• (General American)IPA^(key): /pəˌtɛn(t)ʃiˈæləti/,[-ɾi]
• Rhymes:-ælɪti
• Hyphenation:pot‧ent‧i‧al‧i‧ty

potentiality (countable anduncountable,pluralpotentialities)

1. (chiefly uncountable) The quality of being or havingpotential.

   Synonym:potency

   Hyponyms:multipotentiality,multipotency;plenipotence,plenipotency;pluripotency,pluripotentiality;omnipotence,omnipotency,omnipotentiality

   filled withpotentiality

   A new year is filled withpotentiality.

2. (countable) An instance of potential: any givenpossibility.

   any and allpotentialities

   We've been prepping for years, and we like to hope that we're ready for allpotentialities — as ready as one can be.

3. Aninherentcapacity forgrowth ordevelopment.
4. Anaptitude amenable todevelopment;capability.
5. (philosophy) Apossibility orcapacity to be something, as opposed to anactuality describing what something actually is at present.
6. (physics)Quantum potential.

• “potentiality”, inWebster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.:G. & C. Merriam,1913,→OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney,Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “potentiality”, inThe Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.:The Century Co.,→OCLC.

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