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

We are cultural animals and it is the richness of our culture which allows us to accept our undoubted potentiality for violence but to believe nevertheless that its expression is a cultural aberration.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

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

Let it float among its rich potentialities, forever young, forever letting process transcend resolution, and, like the poet’s own talent, at home in numerous places and seasons.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 31, 2017

No particles, no fluctuation, no laws, no principles, no potentialities, no states, no space, no time.

From Slate ● Jul. 8, 2014

Because my environment was bare and bleak, I endowed it with unlimited potentialities, redeemed it for the sake of my own hungry and cloudy yearning.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright