Akademik

potential
1. noun
a) Currently unfulfilled capacity to improve, develop, and achieve impressive feats.

Even from a young age it was clear that she had great musical potential.

b) Anything that may be possible; a possibility; potentiality.
See Also: potence, potency, potent, potentate, potentiality
2. adjective
a) Being potent; endowed with energy adequate to a result; efficacious; influential.
b) Existing in possibility, not in actuality.

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