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

The participants were surveyed between workshops and asked to rank indicators related to the future potentiality of the technology.

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

The question, of course, is whether the manifestly exciting potentialities of space will include a practical and affordable role for humans.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 20, 2019

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

Furthermore, initiation into the magnificent world of science brings great esthetic satisfaction, inspiration to youth, fulfillment of the desire to know, and a deeper appreciation of the wonderful potentialities and achievements of the human mind.

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin