NOUN | state | potentiality, potential, potency | the inherent capacity for coming into being |
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cognition | potentiality, capability, capableness | an aptitude that may be developed |
Meaning | The inherent capacity for coming into being. | |
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Synonyms | potential, potency | |
Attributes | potential, possible | Existing in possibility |
Narrower | latency | The state of being not yet evident / evident or active / active |
prospect, chance | The possibility of future success | |
Broader | possibility, possibleness | capability of existing or happening / happening / happening or being true |
Spanish | potencial | |
Catalan | potencial | |
Adjectives | potential | expected to become or be |
Meaning | An aptitude that may be developed. | |
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Synonyms | capability, capableness | |
Attributes | capable | (usually followed by 'of') having capacity or ability |
incapable | (followed by 'of') lacking capacity or ability | |
Narrower | compass, range, reach, grasp | The limit of capability |
imperfectibility | The capability of becoming imperfect | |
perfectibility | The capability of becoming perfect | |
Broader | aptitude | inherent ability |
Opposite | incapability, incapableness | lack of potential for development |
Spanish | capacidad | |
Catalan | capacitat |
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