Potentiality

Word POTENTIALITY
Character 12
Hyphenation po ten ti al i ty
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Potentiality"

What do we mean by potentiality?

The state of being potential. noun

Inherent capacity for growth, development, or coming into existence. noun

Something possessing such capacity. noun

The state of being potential; mere being without actualization; the state of being capable of development into actuality: as, to exist in potentiality: opposed to entelechy. noun

A potential state, quality, or relation; the inherent capability of developing some actual state or quality; possibility of development in some particular direction; capability; possibility. noun

A potential being; a being, or capacity for existence, not yet actualized, but which may be developed into actuality. noun

The quality or state of being potential; possibility, not actuality; inherent capability or disposition, not actually exhibited. noun

The quality of being, or having potential. noun

An inherent capacity for growth or development. noun

An aptitude amenable to development; capability. noun

An aptitude that may be developed noun

The inherent capacity for coming into being noun

The quality of being, or having potential.

An inherent capacity for growth or development.

An aptitude amenable to development; capability.

Indeterminism.

Quantum indeterminacy.

The word used as an escape when commonly found in a tricky conversation. An easy answer for a yes or no question without consequences. The better form of Maybe. Often most affective when said while using hand gestures. Urban Dictionary

The term used to describe someone who you're more than friends with, but not in a relationship with. Short for "the potential boyfriend/girlfriend," it is used to define that awkward limbo phase where you're kinda dating/kinda seeing someone. Urban Dictionary

The state of having potential. Urban Dictionary

The power to be epic Urban Dictionary

Untapped ability to achieve great things. Urban Dictionary

The ability to be potential. #WordsByRusty Urban Dictionary

Term to describe someone who you are more than friends with, but not in a relationship with. Short for "the potential boyfriend/girlfriend," it's meant to finally define this limbo period when you're kinda seeing, kinda dating someone. Urban Dictionary

A mixture of the words 'Potentially' and 'Possibly' for today's indecisive man. Likely to entertain your drunk friends and aggravate your sober ones. Urban Dictionary

An underage girl/guy you would fuck, but are too ashamed to say because you'll feel like a pedo. Urban Dictionary

An answer you can give to your "friends" when they ask you to hang out, but you don't want to. So instead of saying no, you lead them on like a no good thirsty hoe who wants your dick but looks like big foot. Urban Dictionary

Synonyms and Antonyms for Potentiality

The word "potentiality" in example sentences

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. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The ending of this living potentiality is considered wrong for many Christians (Catholics, eastern orthodox) and most Muslims. ❋ Unknown (2010)

But that potentiality is not made easy of accomplishment by reason of its geography. ❋ Unknown (1946)

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. ❋ Unknown (1904)

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? ❋ Ann Althouse (2006)

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. ❋ Bodnar, Istvan (2006)

_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. ❋ Aquinas Thomas (N/A)

“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.” ❋ Unknown (1835)

Anyone with an elementary grip on the notion of potentiality can see that the first kind of overkill objection fails. ❋ William F. Vallicella (2008)

Agamben, both his book Language and Death and his essay "Philosophy and Linguistics," Stewart finds in the latter's conception of "present contingency" — or in other words, in a sense of "potentiality" that can be immanent even in its apparent exclusion — a tentative philosophical model for the sub - or cross-lexical phonic charge of Romantic poetics and its prose derivations. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The issue is complicated by the fact that Aquinas recognizes a category called 'active potency', which is often what is really at stake when we talk about 'potentiality'. ❋ Unknown (2006)

But secondly, it may have a counter-reaction; mainly, that much of the Western world and those Muslim nations that are moderate in nature and scope, will see this as a real threat, that Iran possessing a nuclear weapon, given this kind of potentiality for enflaming public opinion, would be even far more dangerous than we have know to date. ❋ Unknown (2006)

This is related to the ideas of revealing "potentiality" as discussed by Herbert Marcuse. ❋ Erik Stolterman (2005)

It is this potentiality which is summed up in the liquidity function ❋ Unknown (2003)

But the infinite in potentiality which is in creatures can be comprehended by the soul of Christ, since it is compared to that soul according to its essence, in which respect it is not infinite. ❋ Aquinas Thomas (N/A)

B.C.E.) could not accept the notion of potentiality on which Aristotle's theory of continuity rested, and so was propelled towards atomism in both its conceptual and physical senses. ❋ Bell, John L. (2009)

But the _separate_ in which there is no kind of potentiality and which exists _per se_, is God. ❋ Isaac Husik (1907)

And it is this potentiality which is the issue at stake. ❋ Unknown (1905)

[Speaker] 1: "Did you punch yourself in the face while dancing awkwardly?" Speaker 2: "[um]... [eh]. Potentially..." ❋ Steffers_11 (2010)

Son: Hey mom, where's [Kelcey]? Mom: She's hanging out with Marco. I think he's The Potential. Son: [Oh geez], God help that [poor boy]. ❋ TheNickyZac (2012)

Look at all [the ladies] in [the bar] [tonight]... very potentious. ❋ Danizzle (2007)

[Im] [18], do i have [potential]?? ❋ Notbadboy2 (2009)

He's earning mid-B's so far this year, but he has [tremendous] [potential]. I think he'll end up with an A if he starts [studying]. ❋ Diggity Monkeez (2005)

The [potentiability] of that [space heater]. ❋ Rustoleum (2015)

Son: [Hey mom], what's [Kelcey] doing tonight? Mom: She's hanging out with Marco again. It looks like he's The Potential. Son: [Oh geez], god help that boy! ❋ AmazinNickyZac (2012)

Man 1: You [coming] to the [bar] [tonight]? Man 2: Potentiably ❋ Spadict (2008)

[instead] of "i'd [fuck her]", [you say], "she's got potential" ❋ David (2004)

Person 1: You [wanna ball] tomorrow? Person 2: potentially Person 1: [I'll take that] as a no. [Fuck you too]. ❋ MRxMUFFINxMAN (2017)

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