Potential
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: Being potent; endowed with energy adequate to a result; efficacious; influential. Existing in possibility, not in actuality. Referring to a verbal construction of form stating something is possible or probable.
Part of speech: noun
Definition: Currently unfulfilled capacity to improve, develop, and achieve impressive feats. Anything that may be possible; a possibility; potentiality. In the theory of gravitation, or of other forces acting in space, a function of the rectangular coordinates which determine the position of a point, such that its differential coefficients with respect to the coordinates are equal to the components of the force at the point considered; -- also called potential function, or force function. It is called also Newtonian potential when the force is directed to a fixed center and is inversely as the square of the distance from the center. The energy of an electrical charge measured by its power to do work; hence, the degree of electrification as referred to some standard, as that of the earth; electro-motive force. A verbal construction or form stating something is possible or probable.
Example sentence: Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential.
Latent
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: Existing or present but concealed or inactive.
Example sentence: Men are as we have always known them, neither better nor worse from the hearts of rogues there springs a latent honesty, from the depths of honest men there emerges a brutish appetite - a thirst for extermination, a desire for blood.