How do you use Potentiality in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like potential or potency, plus the exact meaning.
Potentiality in a sentence
Potentiality meaning
- The quality of being or having potential.
- An instance of potential: any given possibility.
- An inherent capacity for growth or development.
Synonyms of Potentiality
Using Potentiality
- The main meaning on this page is: The quality of being or having potential. | An instance of potential: any given possibility. | An inherent capacity for growth or development.
- Useful related words include: potential, potency, possibility, possibleness.
- In the example corpus, potentiality often appears in combinations such as: the potentiality, potentiality and, potentiality of.
Context around Potentiality
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 7 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Potentiality
- In this selection, "potentiality" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, words, knowledge, city, followed, dynamis and expressed stand out and add context to how "potentiality" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include all mere potentiality and concept of potentiality dynamis and. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "potentiality" sits close to words such as abattoirs, abike and ablative, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with potentiality
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
A careful evaluation of sister-city potentiality followed. (8 words)
Omnipotence is perfect power, free from all mere potentiality. (9 words)
Motion main Aristotle defined motion as the actuality of a potentiality as such. (13 words)
Aristotle, Metaphysics IX 1050a 5–10 In summary, the matter used to make a house has potentiality to be a house and both the activity of building and the form of the final house are actualities, which is also a final cause or end. (44 words)
The PIL, filed by advocate Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay, said that the appointment of ‘Yoga Mitra’ in all schools will be beneficial for the overall development of children of 6-14 years but will also enhance their knowledge, potentiality and talent. (40 words)
Mayr, The Growth of Biological Thought, pp. 201–202; see also: Lovejoy, The Great Chain of Being His system had eleven grades, arranged according "to the degree to which they are infected with potentiality", expressed in their form at birth. (40 words)
Example sentences (20)
Potentiality and Actuality The words "potentiality" and "actuality" are one set of translations from the original Greek terms of Aristotle.
Countries have now to provide warnings to their cities which intend to travel to the nation of the potentiality of terrorist attacks or other attacks in several parts of the country.
Since the series ended, online discourse from fans, reporters, and industry insiders has turned to the potentiality of season 2 ever being made.
The PIL, filed by advocate Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay, said that the appointment of ‘Yoga Mitra’ in all schools will be beneficial for the overall development of children of 6-14 years but will also enhance their knowledge, potentiality and talent.
A careful evaluation of sister-city potentiality followed.
I'm impressed with the potentiality of this project and the amount of jobs and positive effect which this project is capable of having on the economy.
Aristotle, Metaphysics IX 1050a 5–10 In summary, the matter used to make a house has potentiality to be a house and both the activity of building and the form of the final house are actualities, which is also a final cause or end.
Avicenna argued that the impossible being is that which cannot exist, while the contingent in itself (mumkin bi-dhatihi) has the potentiality to be or not to be without entailing a contradiction.
Because the end (telos) is the principle of every change, and for the sake of the end exists potentiality, therefore actuality is the end.
For example, the eyes possess the potentiality of sight (innate – being acted upon), while the capability of playing the flute can be possessed by learning (exercise – acting).
Hinduism: Beliefs and Practices, by Jeanne Fowler, pgs. 42–43, In traditional Indian society, the linga is rather seen as a symbol of the energy and potentiality of the god.
In that particular change he introduces the concept of potentiality ( dynamis ) and actuality ( entelecheia ) in association with the matter and the form.
Mayr, The Growth of Biological Thought, pp. 201–202; see also: Lovejoy, The Great Chain of Being His system had eleven grades, arranged according "to the degree to which they are infected with potentiality", expressed in their form at birth.
Motion main Aristotle defined motion as the actuality of a potentiality as such.
Omnipotence is perfect power, free from all mere potentiality.
Potentiality also occurs when a concept is represented as a compound or derivative in a control language, the morphemes that make it up are themselves international, and the combination adequately conveys the meaning of the larger word.
Referring to potentiality, this is what a thing is capable of doing, or being acted upon, if the conditions are right and it is not prevented by something else.
Substance, potentiality and actuality seeAlso Aristotle examines the concepts of substance and essence (ousia) in his Metaphysics (Book VII), and he concludes that a particular substance is a combination of both matter and form.
The concept of Essence, taken alone is a potentiality, and its combination with matter is its actuality.
The primordial nature he described as "the unlimited conceptual realization of the absolute wealth of potentiality," i.e., the unlimited possibility of the universe.
Common combinations with potentiality
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the potentiality 6×
- potentiality and 5×
- potentiality of 5×
- potentiality to 3×
- of potentiality 3×