What is the difference between potential and potentiality? We can use potential as a noun according to a dictionary. Is there difference between the two?

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What is the difference between potential and potentiality? We can use potential as a noun according to a dictionary. Is there difference between the two?

Nov 15, 2016 6:15 AM

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This kind of difference can be found in many similar word families. The "ity" suffix expresses a state of being. "The election of Donald Trump was always a potential. Its potentiality was often ignored."

November 15, 2016

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