Potentiality

Definition: Potentiality

Potentiality

Noun

1. The inherent capacity for coming into being.

2. An aptitude that may be developed.

Date "potentiality" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1791. (references)

Synonyms: Potentiality

Synonyms: capability (n), capableness (n), potency (n), potential (n). (additional references)

Antonym: incapability (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Possibility	Noun: possibility, potentiality; what may be, what is possible; Adjective: compatibility; (agreement).
Power	Noun: power; potency, potentiality; jiva; puissance, might, force, energy; dint; right hand, right arm;
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Potentiality

English words defined with "potentiality": Animal magnetism ♦ Virtuality. (references)

Specialty definitions using "potentiality": Colicin Factors, crystallizing force ♦ form energy. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Dimensions of human potentiality : the collected works of Eugene Pumpian-Mindlin (reference) Philosophy of Potentiality (reference) Potentiality of the traditional house : a case study of Hofuf, Alhasa (reference) The Pearl of potentiality : (are you ready to catch it?) (reference) Workshop on Food and Nutrition : proceedings of a workshop on agricultural potentiality directed by nutritional needs, June 5-9, 1978, Martonvásár (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Author	Quotation
George Santayana	The environment fosters and selects; the seed must contain the potentiality and direction of the life to be selected.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Author	Date	Quotation
Roe v. Wade	1973	Though the State cannot override that right, it has legitimate interests in protecting both the pregnant woman's health and the potentiality of human life, each of which interests grows and reaches a "compelling" point at various stages of the woman's approach to term. (reference)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Potentiality" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Potentiality" is used about 82 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	82	36,594

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "potentiality"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		rezerva (reserve, resources), mundësi (capability, capacity, chance, eventuality, handle, ingress, likelihood, look in, odds, opportunity, possibility, potential, power, presumption, probability, scope, space, wherewithal). (various references)

Arabic		‏الإمكانية. (various references)

Bulgarian		възможност (chance, eventuality, likelihood, look in, margin, possibility, potential, power, scope, show), потенциалност (potency), изгледи (look out). (various references)

Chinese		潜在性. (various references)

Czech		možnost (choice, contingency, course, eventuality, eventually, facility, opportunity, possibility, scope). (various references)

Farsi		عاملیت بالفعل , عاملیت بالقوه , استعدادنهانی . (various references)

French		potentialité (potency, potential), possibilité (possibility). (various references)

German		möglichkeit (chance, contingency, eventuality, facility, feasibility, likelihood, means, occasion, opening, opportunity, option, possibility). (various references)

Greek		δυνατότησ (possibility), δυνατότητα (ability, capability, possibility). (various references)

Hebrew		כוחיות (vigour). (various references)

Hungarian		tehetségesség (giftedness), rejtett képesség, lappangó lehetőség. (various references)

Italian		potenzialit� (potential). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		潜在 (dormancy, latency). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		そ�"ぢから (latent energy, reserve strength), ひそ�"でいるちから (latent power), せ�"ざい (decoction, detergent, dormancy, garden, latency, long time, millennium, perpetuity, pre-existence, thousand years, trees and flowers in a garden, washing material), かのうせい (likelihood, possibility). (various references)

Korean		� 재� � (Potential). (various references)

Pig Latin		otentialitypay

Portuguese		potencialidade (capability), potência (candle-power, capacitance, capacity, force, intensity, might, mightiness, output, potency, potential), possibilidades (talent-bound characteristics), virtualidade, força (action, dint, flush, force, might, mightiness, nerve, potency, power, pressure, raciness, steam, stoutness, strain, strength, vehemence, vigor, vigour, vim, violence, vitality). (various references)

Romanian		potenţialitate. (various references)

Russian		возможность (capabilities, chance, enablement, eventuality, feasibility, occasion, opening, opportunities, opportunity, position, possibility, pot luck, potential, resource, room, turn). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		potencijalnost, mogućnost (eventuality, liability, opportunity, possibility, potential). (various references)

Spanish		potencialidad (potency). (various references)

Swedish		utvecklingsmöjlighet. (various references)

Turkish		olasılık (chance, contingency, eventuality, expectation, likelihood, odds, plausibility, possibility, presumption, probability, prospect, verisimilitude), olanak (facility, handle, possibility, scope, the possible), imkân (chance, facility, feasibility, handle, possibility, the possible), ihtimal (chance, contingency, eventuality, likelihood, odds, possibility, presumption, probability, prospect, sight, verisimilitude). (various references)

Ukrainian		потенційність, потенціальність. (various references)

Vietnamese		tiềm lực (potential), khả năng (capability, faculty, possibility, power, reach, room). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Words rhyming with "potentiality" (pronounced 'Po*ten`ti*al"i*ty'): Ability, Abnormality, Abnormity, Aboriginality, Absorbability, Absorptivity, Abstrusity, Absurdity, Accendibility, Accentuality, Acceptability, Accessibility, Accidentality, Acclivity, Accomplicity, Accountability, Acerbity, Acetosity, Achromaticity, Acidity, Acquirability, Acrity, Activity, Actuality, Actuosity, Acuity, Addibility, Admirability, Admiralty, Admissibility, Adorability, Aduncity, Adverbiality, Adversity, Advisability, Aeriality, Affability, Affectibility, Agaty, Agility, Agreeability, Alacrity, Alamodality, Aldermanity, Algidity, Alibility, Alienability, Alkalinity, Allotropicity, Alterability. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-i-i-l-n-o-p-t-t-t-y"
	-3 letters: epilation, patiently, potential.
	-4 letters: antipole, antitype, latinity, patently, penality, petition, ponytail, potently, tinplate, titanite, tonality, totality.
	-5 letters: anility, anolyte, antipot, aplenty, elation, epinaoi, inaptly, ineptly, intitle, nattily, opaline, paletot, pantile, patient, penalty, pettily, pinitol, pintail, polenta, potline, ptyalin, talipot, tattily, tintype, toenail, topline.
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