POTENTIALITIES Synonyms: 12 Similar and Opposite Words

potentialities

noun

plural of potentiality

as in possibilities

something that can develop or become actual would like to see a colony on the moon as an actuality and not merely a potentiality

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Recent Examples of potentialities And where there is injustice and frustration, the potentialities for violence are greater. —

NBC news, 12 Oct. 2025

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Noun

Many people still associate these feelings of modern belonging with the loftiest human possibilities; hence the powerful emotions that are generated when they are brought together—at the Olympic Games, for instance, or the United Nations headquarters in New York.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 18 May 2026
And mistaking one for the other is another legacy of how the Cold War foreshortened the humanistic possibilities of the intellectual revolution of the past eighty years—a revolution that has, miraculously, allowed people to communicate with machines using human languages.

— Jill Lepore, New Yorker, 18 May 2026