po·lar·i·ty

  

1: the quality or condition inherent in a body that exhibits opposite properties or powers in opposite parts or directions or that exhibits contrasted properties or powers in contrasted parts or directions :

the condition of having poles

2: attraction toward a particular object or in a specific direction

3: the particular state either positive or negative with reference to the two poles or to electrification

4 a: diametrical opposition  b: an instance of such opposition