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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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“Potentiality.” The Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster Inc., https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/potentiality. Accessed 15 December 2019.

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