potentiality
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How to use potentiality in a sentence
Endowments are about sustainability, about the future, about potentiality.
‘We are in crisis mode’: Museum workers are turning to unions over conditions they say are untenable | Mark Guarino | November 4, 2021 | Washington PostEverything was to some degree potentiality, until it got channeled in a specific direction by circumstance and the rule-scape into which one was born.
If I am right that this potentiality matters, what can Americans do to retain their historic leadership?
This action provided Virginians with knowledge of the type of terrain and its potentiality along this important borderline.
Hallowed Heritage: The Life of Virginia | Dorothy M. TorpeyThe determination of what is suitable to a being belongs to the superior Being of whom the lower being is a potentiality.
Plotinos: Complete Works, v. 3 | Plotinos (Plotinus)
Now, having the potentiality of producing, it produced within itself; its actualization was "being," and it was united thereto.
Plotinos: Complete Works, v. 3 | Plotinos (Plotinus)Besides, even if actualization be contemporaneous with potentiality, why should not the first rank be assigned to actualization?
Plotinos: Complete Works, v. 3 | Plotinos (Plotinus)Or, if it be insisted that actualization and potentiality must be simultaneous, both principles will be found depending on chance.
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British Dictionary definitions for potentiality
/ (pəˌtɛnʃɪˈælɪtɪ) /
latent or inherent capacity or ability for growth, fulfilment, etc
a person or thing that possesses such a capacity
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