chance vs potentiality

potentiality vs chance

chance and potentiality both are nouns.

chance is an adjective but potentiality is not an adjective.

chance is a verb but potentiality is not a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
chance	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
potentiality	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, potentiality is a hypernym of chance; that is, potentiality is a word with a broader meaning than chance:

chance: the possibility of future success
potentiality: the inherent capacity for coming into being

Other hypernyms of chance include potency, potential.

chance (noun)	potentiality (noun)
a risk involving danger	an aptitude that may be developed
a measure of how likely it is that some event will occur; a number expressing the ratio of favorable cases to the whole number of cases possible	the inherent capacity for coming into being
an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another
a possibility due to a favorable combination of circumstances
the possibility of future success

chance (adjective)	potentiality (adjective)
occurring or appearing or singled out by chance

chance (verb)	potentiality (verb)
come upon, as if by accident; meet with
take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome
be the case by chance

Difference between chance and potentiality

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