Potentially vs Presumably - What's the difference?
potentially | presumably |
In a manner showing much potential; with the possibility of happening in a given way.
* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=September-October, author=
, magazine=(American Scientist), title= (label) Powerfully, strongly.
* 1851 , (Herman Melville), (Moby-Dick) :
Able to be sensibly presumed.
* 2011 , Phil McNulty, Euro 2012: Montenegro 2-2 England [http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/15195384.stm]
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As adverbs the difference between potentially and presumably
is that potentially is in a manner showing much potential; with the possibility of happening in a given way while presumably is able to be sensibly presumed.potentially
English
Adverb
(en adverb)Michael Sivak
Will AC Put a Chill on the Global Energy Supply?, passage=Nevertheless, it is clear that the global energy demand for air-conditioning will grow substantially as nations become more affluent, with the consequences of climate change potentially accelerating the demand.}}
- 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.
presumably
English
Alternative forms
* (archaic)Adverb
(en adverb)- Capello made a change on the hour which was presumably enforced by injury as the excellent Young was replaced by Stewart Downing.
- Yet this is the level of [neural] organisation that does the actual thinking—and is, presumably , the seat of consciousness.
