1. (n.)electricity a fundamentalproperty of matter caused by the presence and motion of electrons, protons, or positrons, manifesting itself as attraction, repulsion, luminous and heating effects, and the like.
4. electricity a state or feeling of excitement, anticipation, or the like.
Etymology: (1640–50)
Definition of 'Electricity'
Princeton's WordNet
1. (noun)electricity a physical phenomenon associated with stationary or moving electrons and protons
2. (noun)electricity, electrical energy energy made available by the flow of electric charge through a conductor "they built a car that runs on electricity"
3. (noun)electricity keen and shared excitement "the stage crackled with electricity whenever she was on it"
1. (noun)electricity energy that produces power for equipment such as TVs, hairdryers, etc. the supply of electricity; The explosion cut off electricity to most of the city.
Definition of 'Electricity'
Webster Dictionary
1. (noun)Electricity a power in nature, a manifestation of energy, exhibiting itself when in disturbed equilibrium or in activity by a circuit movement, the fact of direction in which involves polarity, or opposition of properties in opposite directions; also, by attraction for many substances, by a law involving attraction between surfaces of unlike polarity, and repulsion between those of like; by exhibiting accumulated polar tension when the circuit is broken; and by producing heat, light, concussion, and often chemical changes when the circuit passes between the poles or through any imperfectly conducting substance or space. It is generally brought into action by any disturbance of molecular equilibrium, whether from a chemical, physical, or mechanical, cause
2. (noun)Electricity the science which unfolds the phenomena and laws of electricity; electrical science
1. Electricity the namegiven to a subtle agent called the electric fluid, latent in all bodies, and first evolved by friction, and which may manifest itself, under certain conditions, in brilliant flashes of light, or, when in contact with animals, in nervous shocks more or less violent. It is of two kinds, negative and positive, and as such exhibits itself in the polarity of the magnet, when it is called Magnetic (q. v.), and is excited by chemical action, when it is called Voltaic (q. v.).
Electricity is a powerful physical agent which manifests itself mainly by attractions and repulsions, but also by luminous and heating effects, by violent commotions, by chemical decompositions, and many other phenomena. Unlike gravity, it is not inherent in bodies, but it is evoked in them by a variety of causes … (Ganot's Physics.)
Electricity and magnetism are not forms of energy; neither are they forms of matter. They may, perhaps, be provisionally defined as properties or conditions of matter; but whether this matter be the ordinary matter, or whether it be, on the other hand, that all-pervading ether by which ordinarymatter is surrounded, is a question which has been under discussion, and which now may be fairly held to be settled in favor of the latterview. (Daniell's Physics.)
The name used in connection with an extensive and important class of phenomena, and usually denoting the unknown cause of the phenomena or the science that treats of them. (Imperial Dictionary.)
Electricity. . . is the imponderable physical agent, cause, force or the molecular movement, by which, under certain conditions, certain phenomena, chiefly those of attraction and repulsion, . . . are produced. (John Angell.)
It has been suggested that if anything can rightly be called "electricity," this must be the ether itself; and that all electrical and magnetic phenomena are simply due to changes, strains and motions in the ether. Perhaps negative electrification. . .means an excess of ether, and positive electrification a defect of ether, as compared with the normal density. (W. Larden.)
Electricity is the name given to the supposed agent producing the described condition (i. e. electrification) of bodies. (Fleeming Jenkin.)
There are certain bodies which, when warm and dry, acquire by friction, the property of attracting feathers, filaments of silk or indeed any light body towards them. This property is called Electricity, and bodies which possess it are said to be electrified. (Linnaeus Cumming.)
What electricity is it is impossible to say, but for the present it is convenient to look upon it as a kind of invisible something which pervades all bodies. (W. Perren Maycock.)
What is electricity? No one knows. It seems to be one manifestation of the energy which fills the universe and which appears in a variety of other forms, such as heat, light, magnetism, chemical affinity, mechanical motion, etc. (Park Benjamin.)
The theory of electricity adopted throughout these lessons is, that electricity, whatever its true nature, is one, not two; that this Electricity, whatever it may prove to be, is not matter, and is not energy; that it resembles both matter and energy in one respect, however, in that it can neither be created nor destroyed. (Sylvanus P. Thomson.)
In Physics a name denoting the cause of an important class of phenomena of attraction and repulsion, chemical decomposition, etc., or, collectively, these p
Definitions of Electricity 
Afrikaans: elektrisiteit
Arabic: كَهْرَباء
Bulgarian: електричество
Brazilian: eletricidade
Czech: elektřina
German: die Elektrizität
Danish: elektricitet; el; strøm
Greek: ηλεκτρισμός
Spanish: electricidad
Estonian: elekter
Farsi: برق؛ الکتریسیته
Finnish: sähkö
French: électricité
Hebrew: חַשמַל
Hindi: विद्युत शक्ति, बिजली
Croatian: elektricitet
Hungarian: elektromosság
Indonesian: tenaga listrik
Icelandic: rafmagn
Italian: elettricità
Japanese: 電気
Korean: 전기
Lithuanian: elektra
Latvian: elektrība
Malay: elektrik
Dutch: elektriciteit
Norwegian: strøm, elektrisitet
Polish: elektryczność
Persian: برق؛ الکتریسیته
Pashto: برېښنا برق
Portuguese: electricidade
Romanian: electricitate
Russian: электричество
Slovak: elektrina
Slovenian: električni tok
Serbian: struja
Swedish: elektricitet
Thai: กระแสไฟฟ้า
Turkish: elektrik
Taiwanese: 電
Ukrainian: електрика
Urdu: بجلی ، توانائی
Vietnamese: điện
Chinese: 电
