Meaning & use
Potentialities
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Qualities or abilities that have the capacity to develop or be realized in the future.
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The coach saw untapped potentialities in the young athlete.
Investors were drawn to the technology's commercial potentialities.
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The plural of 'potentiality', a more formal cousin of 'potential' often used in academic or philosophical writing.
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possibilitiescapabilities
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