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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

POTENTIAL'ITY, n. Possibility; not actuality.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: the inherent capacity for coming into being [syn: potential, potentiality, potency]
2: an aptitude that may be developed [syn: capability, capableness, potentiality] [ant: incapability, incapableness]

Merriam Webster's

noun (plural -ties) Date: 1625 1. the ability to develop or come into existence 2. potential 1

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Potentiality Po*ten`ti*al"i*ty, n. The quality or state of being potential; possibility, not actuality; inherent capability or disposition, not actually exhibited.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(potentialities) If something has potentialities or potentiality, it is capable of being used or developed in particular ways. (FORMAL) The breathtaking potentialities of mechanization set the minds of manufacturers and merchants on fire... All of these are quite useful breeds whose potentiality has not been realised. = potential N-VAR: usu with supp

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Possibility.

Moby Thesaurus

amperage, armipotence, authority, bare possibility, beef, black power, brute force, chance, charge, charisma, clout, cogence, cogency, compulsion, conceivability, conceivableness, contingency, delitescence, dint, dormancy, drive, duress, effect, effectiveness, effectuality, energy, even chance, eventuality, flower power, force, force majeure, forcefulness, full blast, full force, good chance, good possibility, hope, influence, latency, latent content, latent meaningfulness, latentness, likelihood, main force, main strength, mana, might, might and main, mightiness, moxie, muscle power, off chance, outside chance, outside hope, pizzazz, poop, possibilities, possibility, possibleness, potence, potency, potential, power, power pack, power structure, power struggle, powerfulness, prepotency, probability, productiveness, productivity, prospect, puissance, pull, punch, push, remote possibility, sinew, small hope, steam, strength, strong arm, superiority, superpower, the attainable, the feasible, the possible, thinkability, thinkableness, validity, vehemence, vigor, vim, virility, virtuality, virtue, virulence, vitality, wattage, weight, what is possible, what may be, what might be