potentiality

How To Use potentiality In A Sentence

• Rudimentary organs sometimes retain their potentiality: this occasionally occurs with the mammae of male mammals, which have been known to become well developed and to secrete milk. Darwin and the vermiform appendix - The Panda's Thumb
• If the notion of potentiality is ruled out of order as Rev has apparently done in a related discussion, doesn't his position imply that a two or three day-old infant is not entitled to legal protection? "The proceedings seemed more like a medical school seminar than an appellate argument."
• He saw a slip of moon, peeking, just momentarily --- undelineated, a fuzz of potentiality --- through the moist and whited cloud around him. BEHINDLINGS
• In advancing the tenets of racism, Western theorists left no avenue of human potentiality and human activity untouched.
• Nothing of the implausible metaphysics of this poem, let alone its specific Neoplatonic decor, need obscure what comes to light, and to ear, by such associations about a continuous human potentiality modeled in verse itself. Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian
• M : I am neither the potentiality nor the actualisation, nor the actuality of things.
• Depending on what potentiality he develops, he may become a plant, an animal, a celestial being, an angel, or he may even be unified with God himself.
• But he lived onto propound his extraordinary theory of "potentiality" -- that medicines gained strength by being diluted -- and his even more extraordinary theory that all chronic diseases are caused either by the itch, syphilis, or fig-wart disease, or are brought on by medicines. A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume IV: Modern Development of the Chemical and Biological Sciences
• Such an argument resists many of the typical counter-arguments directed at potentiality as an ethical consideration in the abortion debate.
• It exists as infinite potentiality without clearly defined boundaries or parameters.