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potentiality

🇬🇧 UK/pәu.tenʃi'æliti/🇺🇸 US
TOEFLB1

Definitions

n.

The quality of having potential; an inherent capacity for development or growth

潜在性,可能性

🧩 Root Breakdown

Root-derived
potentpowerful, able, capable
+
ialrelating to, having the nature of
+
itystate, quality, condition
=potentiality

Common Collocations

  • 1.human potentiality人类潜能
  • 2.[creative potentiality]创造潜力
  • 3.realize one's potentiality实现潜能
  • 4.full potentiality全部潜力

Example Sentences

  • 1.

    The potentiality of renewable energy to transform the global economy is enormous.

  • 2.

    Every child carries within them the potentiality for greatness.

  • 3.

    Philosophers have long debated the potentiality of matter to give rise to consciousness.

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