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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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
  • Related Stories Gimple likened the storytelling possibilities to the intricate canon of stories and characters assembled by DC and Marvel in the comic book realm.
    Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 14 Oct. 2025
  • But the researchers who revealed the discovery of the planet ruled out some possibilities.
    Paul Sutter, Space.com, 14 Oct. 2025
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  • That’s no longer the case, and suddenly the possibilities for who wins this category are endless, with Taylor, Wicked’s Ariana Grande, and Sentimental Value’s Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas all feeling like potentials at this stage.
    Joe Reid, Vulture, 10 Oct. 2025
  • 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

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“Potentialities.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/potentialities. Accessed 21 Oct. 2025.

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