potentiality
Syllables: pot·ent·i·al·i·ty/pəˌtɛnʃiˈælɪti/US/pəˌtɛn(t)ʃiˈæləti/
potentiality noun: the quality of being or having potential.
Noun
potentiality (countable and uncountable, plural potentialities)
- The quality of being or having potential.
- filled with potentiality
- A new year is filled with potentiality.
- Synonyms:
- potency
- An instance of potential: any given possibility.
- any and all potentialities
- We've been prepping for years, and we like to hope that we're ready for all potentialities — as ready as one can be.
- An inherent capacity for growth or development.
- An aptitude amenable to development; capability.
- A possibility or capacity to be something, as opposed to an actuality describing what something actually is at present.
- Quantum potential.
potentiality meaning in Tamil, Bengali and Kannada
potentiality in Tamil
- இயல் திறம், செயல்படும் திறம், தனக்குள் சக்தி பெற்றிருத்தல், நிலைப்பண்பு
potentiality in Bengali
- সম্ভাবনা, সুপ্ত ক্ষমতা
potentiality in Kannada
- ಶಕ್ಯತೆ
Examples of potentiality in a sentence
- Modernization is a true Koreanization, seeking its own potentialities and building up its own idiosyncrasies.
- I believe in the potentialities of autistic stories and gestures, of neuroqueering what we've come to understand as language and being.
- That principle, protomatter, is actualized (by the mouse-form) in the mouse, but is potentiality to be actualized in other ways.
Synonyms of potentiality
Forms of potentiality
| plural | potentialities |
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Origin of potentiality
From potential + -ity.
Words formed from potentiality
Words that rhyme with potentiality
- modality
- plurality
- locality
- personality
- reality
- fatality
- morality
- bestiality
- sexuality
- duality
- formality
- instrumentality
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- irrationality
- tonality
- asexuality
- banality
- brutality
- centrality
- externality
- generality
- hospitality
- normality
- totality
- causality
- confidentiality
- conventionality
- cordiality
- dimensionality
- eventuality
- extraterritoriality
- fantasticality
- homosexuality
- immorality
- legality
- lethality
- mentality
- notionality
- sensuality
- surreality
- temporality
- androsexuality
- chirality
- congeniality
- dentality
- diapersexuality
- finality
- fursonality
- geniality
- grammaticality
- graysexuality
- gynesexuality
- gynosexuality
- institutionality
- joviality
- magnality
- mysticality
- omnipotentiality
- speciality
- sphericality
- topicality
Questions about potentiality
- What does potentiality mean?
- Potentiality means the quality of being or having potential.
- What is potentiality in Tamil?
- Potentiality in Tamil is இயல் திறம், செயல்படும் திறம், தனக்குள் சக்தி பெற்றிருத்தல். See Potentiality meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is potentiality?
- Potentiality is a noun.
- How do you pronounce potentiality?
- Potentiality is pronounced /pəˌtɛnʃiˈælɪti/ (UK).
- What is the plural of potentiality?
- The plural of potentiality is potentialities.
Words near potentiality in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: potentiality (page history and authors); potentiality (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); potentiality (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); potentiality (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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