potentiality

[ puh-ten-shee-al-i-tee ]

/ pəˌtɛn ʃiˈæl ɪ ti /

the state or quality of being potential.

something potential; a possibility: Atomic destruction is a grim potentiality.

Origin of potentiality

From the Medieval Latin word potentiālitās, dating back to 1615–25. See potential, -ity

If I am right that this potentiality matters, what can Americans do to retain their historic leadership?

So What Would I Do About China? |David Frum |August 22, 2012 |DAILY BEAST
Four things must be removed from God: corporeality, affection, potentiality, resemblance to his creatures.

A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy |Isaac Husik
The First (or One) is the potentiality of movement and of rest; consequently, He is superior to both things.

Plotinos: Complete Works, v. 1 |Plotinos (Plotinus)
But the separate in which there is no kind of potentiality and which exists per se, is God.

A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy |Isaac Husik

The ambition of Claire saddened him to contemplate; it had so rich a potentiality for its background.

An Ambitious Woman |Edgar Fawcett
All objects of thought exist, either purely in potentiality, or purely in actuality, or both in potentiality and in actuality.

Christianity and Greek Philosophy |Benjamin Franklin Cocker

potentiality

/ (pəˌtɛnʃɪˈælɪtɪ) /

latent or inherent capacity or ability for growth, fulfilment, etc

a person or thing that possesses such a capacity