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Definition of Potentiality
1. Noun. The inherent capacity for coming into being.
Generic synonyms: Possibility, Possibleness
Specialized synonyms: Latency, Chance, Prospect
Attributes: Possible, Potential
Derivative terms: Potential, Potential, Potential
2. Noun. An aptitude that may be developed.
Generic synonyms: Aptitude
Specialized synonyms: Perfectibility, Compass, Grasp, Range, Reach, Imperfectibility
Attributes: Capable, Incapable
Derivative terms: Capable, Capable
Antonyms: Incapability
Definition of Potentiality
1. n. The quality or state of being potential; possibility, not actuality; inherent capability or disposition, not actually exhibited.
Definition of Potentiality
1. Noun. The quality of being, or having potential. ¹
2. Noun. An inherent capacity for growth or development. ¹
3. Noun. An aptitude amenable to development; capability. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Potentiality
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Potentiality
Literary usage of Potentiality
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"It is a receptive potentiality. With regard to the same statue, the sculptor ...
I can form no idea either of the marble's potentiality or of the sculptor's ..."
2. Comte, Mill, and Spencer: An Outline of Philosophy by John Watson (1895)
"Plainly, therefore, on Descartes' assumption of the absolute separation of the
mind from all reality, we are reduced to the idea of a mere potentiality. ..."
3. The Metaphysics of the School by Thomas Harper (1881)
"But the only transcendental intrinsic relation which a pure passive potentiality
can have to its determining act, is one of dependence. ..."
4. Hegel's Doctrine of Reflection: Being a Paraphrase and a Commentary by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1881)
"The emptiness of its determination reduces it to a mere potentiality — to a ...
This potentiality is however itself the absolute ; for it is precisely the ..."
5. The Field of Philosophy: An Introduction to the Study of Philosophy by Joseph Alexander Leighton (1919)
"potentiality, ACTUALITY AND NOVELTY From Aristotle to the present the concept of
potentiality ... Thus the distinction between potentiality and actuality, ..."
6. Ontology Or the Theory of Being: An Introduction to General Metaphysics by Peter Coffey (1914)
"(c) ACTUALITY: ITS RELATION TO potentiality.—It is from our experience of change
in the world that we derive our notions of the potential and the actual, ..."
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