🆚What is the difference between "potential" and "potentiality" ? "potential" vs "potentiality" ? (2024)

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Updated on21 Apr 2023

ske-kg

9 Apr 2023

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What is the difference between potential and potentiality?

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Potentiality is a philosophy term, not a word that most people would be able to define. Like most philosophy terms it's hard to explain, but it refers to the 'possibility' that a thing has before anything actually happens to it to bring any of those possibilities to fruition.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potentiality_and_...

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