potentialitypo‧ten‧ti‧al‧i‧ty /pəˌtenʃiˈæləti/ noun (plural potentialities) [countable] - A great deal hangs upon the species difference, the human capacity of the less subnormal, and the potentiality of normal infants.
- He is the enabler who lures the network of events and relationships, which constitute the Universe, to fulfil its potentialities.
- In advancing the tenets of racism, Western theorists left no avenue of human potentiality and human activity untouched.
- It crushes our potentialities and invades our lives with its imported products and televised movies that swamp the airwaves.
- Rudolf Dreikurs has observed that encouragement implies faith in the child as she is, not in her potentiality.
- The result is a text that operates in the mode of potentiality.
- These paintings follow from a period of two years in which Chevallier examined the potentialities of the colour red.
- What is coincident with the modal's event is the infinitive event's potentiality, not its actualization.
nounpotentialpotentialityadjectivepotentialadverbpotentially