Nematicity is a long-range orientational order associated with rotation-symmetry breaking in the presence of translational invariance, borne out of the description of classical liquid crystals (1). This order also emerges in interacting electrons and has been found to largely intertwine with multi-orbital correlation in high-temperature superconductivity, where Ising nematicity arises from a four-fold rotation symmetry C 4 brokendown to C 2 (2, 3). Here we report an observation of a bosonic superfluid with a three-state (Z 3 ) quantum nematic order, dubbed "Potts-nematicity", in a system of ultracold atoms loaded in an excited band of a hexagonal optical lattice described by an sp 2 -orbital hybridized model (4, 5). This Potts-nematic superfluid spontaneously breaks a 1