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potentiality
  1. The quality of being, or having potential.
  2. An inherent capacity for growth or development.
  3. An aptitude amenable to development; capability.
  4. (philosophy) Indeterminism.
  5. (physics) Quantum indeterminacy.
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  7. Examples:
    1. “Sadra warns against the idea that potentiality is prior to actuality in an absolute sense.”
      “There has been much controversy about the political meaning and potentiality of music video not to mention rock music and youth culture.”
      “It exists as infinite potentiality without clearly defined boundaries or parameters.”
potential
  1. Currently unrealized ability (with the most common adposition being to)
  2. (physics) The gravitational potential is the radial (irrotational, static) component of a gravitational field, also known as the Newtonian potential or the gravitoelectric field.
  3. (physics) The work (energy) required to move a reference particle from a reference location to a specified location in the presence of a force field, for example to bring a unit positive electric charge from an infinite distance to a specified point against an electric field.
  4. (grammar) A verbal construction or form stating something is possible or probable.
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  6. Examples:
    1. “Billy has the potential to be an elite player.”
      “There is a potential for life on Mars.”
potent
  1. (heraldry) A heraldic fur formed by a regular tessellation of blue and white T shapes.
  2. (obsolete) A prince; a potentate.
  3. (obsolete) A staff or crutch.
potentiator
  1. (biology) A reagent that enhances sensitization of an antigen
  2. (medicine) A drug that enhances the response to another
  3. A flavour enhancer
potency
  1. Strength
  2. Power
  3. The ability or capacity to perform something.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “What is it to say about the historical potency of people power in challenging systems of entrenched and irresponsible power of this kind, of which it is itself a part?”
      “The potency of the Law of Nature as a constraint upon judicial reasoning was more or less taken for granted at that time.”
      “Despite his illness, or maybe because of it, there was a potency in his words.”
potentate
  1. A powerful leader; a monarch; a ruler.
  2. A powerful polity or institution.
  3. (derogatory) A self-important person.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “The potentate ruled over the kingdom with absolute authority, shaping the destiny of its people.”
potence
  1. power or strength; potency
  2. A stud that acts as a support of a pivot in a watch or clock
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  4. Examples:
    1. “Then suddenly it waked, for the moon was sinking, and the charm had lost its potence.”
      “The little white tablet's potence is well known to anyone who has suffered from a headache or fever.”
      “Effectiveness and potence are sometimes deemed to be the end product of different skills.”
potentiation
  1. The action of a substance, at a dose that does not itself have an adverse action, in enhancing the effect of another substance
  2. Examples:
    1. “Researchers believe these synaptic changes, called long-term potentiation or LTP, are the basis for learning in the brain.”
      “These studies comprise two general lines of inquiry that include studies of the phenomena of long-term potentiation and kindling.”
      “We hypothesized that in these patients theophylline, a drug that stabilizes breathing, may affect short-term potentiation.”
potentness
  1. The quality or state of being potent; powerfulness; potency; efficacy.
potestate
  1. (obsolete) A chief ruler; a potentate.
potentialization
  1. The process of potentializing.
potentiations
  1. plural of potentiation
potentialities
  1. plural of potentiality
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The Colonel s own assessment, made after gaming all the potentialities, is that a strike on Bushehr and associated targets is almost unavoidable.”
      “Its presence is what invests every human being with a multiplicity of powers and potentialities.”
      “The other two potentialities described in the Sankhya philosophy, rajas, physical dynamism and tamas, insensibility, are rendered ineffective.”
potentiators
  1. plural of potentiator
potentates
  1. plural of potentate
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Marco Polo, like many Europeans after him, remarked on the curious fact that local potentates wore minimal clothing with loads of jewellery.”
      “Elected officials come and go, but the military potentates, policies and budgets go on and on.”
      “Back then, envoys from both powers criss-crossed this territory, hoping to curry favour with the regional potentates.”
potentials
  1. plural of potential
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  3. Examples:
    1. “This is well established by studies on electro-osmosis and streaming potentials.”
      “Various measurable bits in the universe have vastly different potentials to have a causal impact.”
      “He derides the parents as philistine consumerists unduly concerned with their children's earning potentials.”
potestates
  1. plural of potestate
potences
potencies
  1. plural of potency
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Homeopaths call this potentisation and the remedies can come in different potencies depending on the number of times they are diluted.”
      “Most classical homeopathic practitioners use the centesimal scale of potencies, although a few use the millesimal.”
      “A qualified homeopath can provide more individualised remedies in stronger potencies if required.”
potents
  1. plural of potent
  2. Examples:
    1. “The heads of the crutches or potents touch each other in the centre of the shield.”
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