POTENTIALS Synonyms

• capability to perform or produce

• the susceptibility of something to a particular treatment

• the amount that can be contained

• the maximum production possible

• a specified function

• (computer science) the amount of information (in bytes) that can be stored on a disk drive

• an electrical phenomenon whereby an electric charge is stored

• the power to learn or retain knowledge; in law, the ability to understand the facts and significance of your behavior

• tolerance for alcohol

• a possibility due to a favorable combination of circumstances

• the right to buy or sell property at an agreed price; the right is purchased and if it is not exercised by a stated date the money is forfeited

• one of a number of things from which only one can be chosen

• the act of choosing or selecting

• a future prospect or potential

• capability of existing or happening or being true

• a tentative insight into the natural world; a concept that is not yet verified but that if true would explain certain facts or phenomena

• a possible alternative

• the possibility of future success

• belief about (or mental picture of) the future

• someone who is considered for something (for an office or prize or honor etc.)

• the visual percept of a region

• a prediction of the course of a disease

• search for something desirable

• explore for useful or valuable things or substances, such as minerals

• has a good chance of being the case or of coming about

• with considerable certainty; without much doubt

• expected to become or be; in prospect

• within the realm of credibility

• the intellectual conception of a thing as it is in itself, not as it is known through perception

• capable of happening or existing

• existing in possibility

• something that can be done

• an applicant who might be suitable

• the power or right to give orders or make decisions

• capacity to produce strong physiological or chemical effects

• the inherent capacity for coming into being

• the state of being potent; a male's capacity to have sexual intercourse

• the inherent capacity for coming into being

• an aptitude that may be developed

• the vital principle or animating force within living things

• the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people

• a fundamental emotional and activating principle determining one's character

• any incorporeal supernatural being that can become visible (or audible) to human beings

• the state of a person's emotions (especially with regard to pleasure or dejection)

• the intended meaning of a communication

• animation and energy in action or expression

• an inclination or tendency of a certain kind

• infuse with spirit

• the rate at which energy is drawn from a source that produces a flow of electricity in a circuit; expressed in volts

• the difference in electrical charge between two points in a circuit expressed in volts

• the difference in electrical charge between two points in a circuit expressed in volts

• the difference in electrical charge between two points in a circuit expressed in volts

• the difference in electrical charge between two points in a circuit expressed in volts