Potentiality

(n.) The quality or state of being potential; possibility, not actuality; inherent capability or disposition, not actually exhibited.

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• As an instrument, in these things, he was marvellous, she had never seen any man with his potentiality. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• We may mean by potentiality a merely dormant or quiescent state--a capacity to become something different under external influences. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• But we also mean by capacity an ability, a power; and by potentiality potency, force. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Gradually it drew away all his potentiality, it bled him into the dark, it weaned him of life and drew him away into the darkness. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• It is noteworthy that the terms capacity and potentiality have a double meaning, one sense being negative, the other positive. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• It also has vast potentialities for good and evil. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• It had vast potentialities for good and evil--all it wanted was harnessing and directing. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.

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