potencialidade
Portuguese, noun/po.tẽ.si.a.liˈda.d͡ʒi/
potencialidade is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “potentiality, potential, capability” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “característica do que é potencial”.
What does potencialidade mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininepotentiality, potential, capability
- 2
feminineprobability, likeability
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. característica do que é potencial 2. conjunto de qualidades inatas de um indivíduo 3. capacidade de realização, de produção, de execução
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of potencialidade
- potencialidades plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce potencialidade?
- Brazil /po.tẽ.si.a.liˈda.d͡ʒi/
- Brazil /po.tẽ.sja.liˈda.d͡ʒi/
- Portugal /pu.tẽ.sjɐ.liˈda.dɨ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is potencialidade in Portuguese?
potencialidade appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).