What is another word for potentialities?

Pronunciation: [pətˈɛnʃɪˈalɪtiz] (IPA)

Potentialities refer to the possibilities or latent capabilities of a person or a thing. There are numerous synonyms that can be used to express potentialities, some of them being aptitude, capacity, capability, potency, promise, and talent. Aptitude suggests a natural inclination or predisposition toward success in a particular area. Capacity refers to the maximum amount that a person or thing can hold or produce. Capability indicates a skill or ability. Potency refers to a strength or effectiveness that holds potential to achieve something great. Promise suggests a future potential for achieving success. Talent signifies natural abilities or aptitudes that are inherent in an individual. All of these synonyms rightly describe potentialities in their own unique way.

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Usage examples for Potentialities

Dazzled by the abstract notion of wealth, she had over-estimated concrete potentialities.
"The Devil's Garden"
W. B. Maxwell
He used to be afraid of himself, of all the potentialities for evil that one takes with one across the threshold of manhood.
"The Devil's Garden"
W. B. Maxwell
The answer is as follows: Obviously self-recognition is the necessary basis for all use of those powers of selection and volition by which the Impersonal Law is to be specialized so as to bring to light its limitless potentialities; and self-recognition means the recognition of our personal Distinctness from our environment.
"The Law and the Word"
Thomas Troward

Famous quotes with Potentialities

  • Mankind will never win lasting peace so long as men use their full resources only in tasks of war. While we are yet at peace, let us mobilize the potentialities, particularly the moral and spiritual potentialities, which we usually reserve for war.
    John Foster Dulles
  • There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.
    Thomas A. Edison
  • The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him.
    Jose Ortega y Gasset
  • None of us know all the potentialities that slumber in the spirit of the population, or all the ways in which that population can surprise us when there is the right interplay of events.
    Vaclav Havel
  • If any organism fails to fulfill its potentialities, it becomes sick.
    William James

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