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PIE word *pótis From omni- (prefix meaning ‘all’) + potentiality (“quality of having potential; (philosophy) capacity or possibility to be something”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Today it means: The characteristic or feeling that anything is possible, and there are no limits on what may be achieved; (countable, rare) an instance of this. Full definition →
PIE word *pótis From omni- (prefix meaning ‘all’) + potentiality (“quality of having potential; (philosophy) capacity or possibility to be something”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.