Potentially vs Potentiality - What's the difference?
potentially | potentiality |
In a manner showing much potential; with the possibility of happening in a given way.
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, magazine=(American Scientist), title= (label) Powerfully, strongly.
* 1851 , (Herman Melville), (Moby-Dick) :
The quality of being, or having potential.
An inherent capacity for growth or development.
An aptitude amenable to development; capability.
As an adverb potentially
is in a manner showing much potential; with the possibility of happening in a given way.As a noun potentiality is
the quality of being, or having potential.potentially
English
Adverb
(en adverb)Michael Sivak
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- I freely assert, that the cosmopolite philosopher cannot, for his life, point out one single peaceful influence, which within the last sixty years has operated more potentially upon the whole broad world, taken in one aggregate, than the high and mighty business of whaling.