potentiality

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
potential/pəˈtenʃl/

▶adjective having the capacity to develop into something in the future. ▶noun

• 1 latent qualities or abilities that may be developed and lead to future success or usefulness.

• 2 (often potential for/to do something) the possibility of something happening or of someone doing something in the future.

• 3 Physics the quantity determining the energy of mass in a gravitational field or of charge in an electric field.

– derivatives
potentiality noun,
potentialize (or potentialise) verb,
potentially adverb.

– origin ME: from late L. potentialis, from potentia ‘power’.