potentialities
What could become
Potentialities are latent capacities or possibilities that haven't yet been realized.
The word emphasizes what could develop or emerge under the right conditions: The teacher recognized the potentialities in her struggling student.
Often used in philosophical or psychological contexts to distinguish between what exists now and what might come to be.
Things that may occur
- prospectsExpected future outcomes
- opportunitiesFavorable times to act
- horizonsApparent earth-sky boundaries
- scenariosImagined sequences of events
trajectories · pathways · eventualities · contingencies · alternatives · outcomes · directions · courses
Inactive but capable
- untappedNot yet utilized
- unrealizedNot made actual
- hiddenKept out of sight
- nascentBeginning to develop
embryonic · inchoate · incipient · quiescent · unawakened · unexpressed · unmanifested · veiled
Maximum holding amounts
- abilitiesPowers to perform
- aptitudesInnate capacities for learning
- talentsInnate abilities
- powersAbilities or authorities held
faculties · endowments · gifts · strengths · competencies · proficiencies · resources · assets
Progress toward maturity
- evolutionSpecies changing over generations
- maturationProcess of becoming complete
- flourishingProspering vigorously
- blossomingBeginning to flower
cultivation · transformation · actualization · realization · fulfillment · manifestation · emergence · unfolding
possibilities
Things that may occur
- prospectsExpected future outcomes
- opportunitiesFavorable times to act
- horizonsApparent earth-sky boundaries
scenarios · trajectories · pathways · eventualities · contingencies · alternatives · outcomes · directions · courses · destinies
dormant
Inactive but capable
- untappedNot yet utilized
- unrealizedNot made actual
- hiddenKept out of sight
nascent · embryonic · inchoate · incipient · quiescent · unawakened · unexpressed · unmanifested · veiled · subliminal
capacities
Maximum holding amounts
powers · faculties · endowments · gifts · strengths · competencies · proficiencies · resources · assets · means
development
Progress toward maturity
- evolutionSpecies changing over generations
- maturationProcess of becoming complete
- flourishingProspering vigorously
blossoming · cultivation · transformation · actualization · realization · fulfillment · manifestation · emergence · unfolding · ripening
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Existing states of affairs
realities · actualization · realizations · manifestations · fulfillments
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Inabilities to perform
impossibilities · inabilities · incapabilities · limitations · impotence
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Ultimate, irreversible states
conclusions · endings · terminations · completions · closures
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