potentiality

Other forms of potentiality

plural

potentialities·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about potentiality

What does potentiality mean?

potentiality means "the inherent capacity for coming into being". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in potentiality?

potentiality has 6 syllables: po-ten-ti-a-li-ty. The stress falls on "a".

What is another word for potentiality?

Close synonyms include potential, potency, capability, capableness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is potentiality a common word?

potentiality is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.