Potentiality and Actuality

Potentiality refers to the inherent capacity or possibility a thing has to become something else or to develop in a certain way, but it has not yet realized that possibility. Actuality is the realized state when that potential has been fully developed or expressed. For example, a seed has the potential to become a tree (potentiality), and when it has grown and developed into a mature tree, that is its actuality. Essentially, potentiality is the possibility waiting to be realized, while actuality is the realization or realization of that possibility.