potentiality

The answer, the author wrote, depended on whether “every boom carries with it the potentiality of a serious relapse.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 6, 2026

Today’s teens face a yawning chasm of potentiality.

From Slate ● Aug. 3, 2024

During the workshops, the participants were asked to think about this technology from the perspective of IFGs, to imagine how this technology might be adopted in the future and to assess its future potentiality.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 26, 2024

Classic Hollywood directors like David Lean and Douglas Sirk knew the amorous potentiality contained in the human face, harnessing its elastic electricity to illuminate soaring embraces and aching breakups.

From New York Times ● Feb. 9, 2024

Since one cannot bespeak until one has been bespoken, until the telepathic potentiality has been sensitized by one clear reception, I had to get through to him first.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin

People who in the past would have felt too afraid to experiment with their gender or sexuality for fear of the stigma that might entail may now be more willing to explore those potentialities.

From Salon ● Jun. 17, 2022

To be truly useful, an analogy must be precise not only in its actualities but in its potentialities.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 6, 2017

For Mr. Curtis, the revisions represent “an ongoing process of completing the work, in a way, of continuing to work out the potentialities that are latent in the piece.”

From New York Times ● Aug. 19, 2015

These potentialities still exist at Glastonbury and other festivals, even if only as an echo.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 18, 2014

A large, middle-aged man, he long ago won my admiration by offering equal job opportunities to members of any race, choosing according to their qualifications and future potentialities.

From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin