potentialities

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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Noun
  • Just as animation, puppetry, or CGI opened fresh possibilities without taking away from live acting, AI offers another way to imagine and build stories.
    Mya Abraham, VIBE.com, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Among the possibilities, NFLX stands out as interesting.
    Michael Bloom, CNBC, 30 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Writing on future potentials for synthetic biology in 1912, none other than Stéphane Leduc — the scientist who, as previously mentioned, gave the field its name — made precisely this claim.
    Thomas Moynihan, Big Think, 15 Sep. 2025
  • However, the Environmental Protection Agency has been working to phase out products like Forane 134a to instead use items with reduced global warming potentials.
    Olivia Evans, The Courier-Journal, 26 Aug. 2025
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“Potentialities.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/potentialities. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.

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