potentiality

potential +‎ -ity

potentiality (countable and uncountable, plural potentialities)

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) A possibility or capacity to be something, as opposed to an actuality describing what something actually is at present.
5. (physics) Quantum potential.

• potence
• potency
• potent
• potentate
• potential

• potentiality in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• “potentiality”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.