mutual opposition, polarity(noun)

a relation between two opposite attributes or tendencies

"he viewed it as a balanced polarity between good and evil"

polarity, sign(noun)

having an indicated pole (as the distinction between positive and negative electric charges)

"he got the polarity of the battery reversed"; "charges of opposite sign"

polarity(Noun)

The separation, alignment or orientation of something into two opposed poles.

polarity(Noun)

Either of the two extremes of such attributes.

polarity(Noun)

The dipole-dipole intermolecular forces between the slightly positively-charged end of one molecule to the negative end of another or the same molecule.

Polarity(noun)

that quality or condition of a body in virtue of which it exhibits opposite, or contrasted, properties or powers, in opposite, or contrasted, parts or directions; or a condition giving rise to a contrast of properties corresponding to a contrast of positions, as, for example, attraction and repulsion in the opposite parts of a magnet, the dissimilar phenomena corresponding to the different sides of a polarized ray of light, etc

Polarity(noun)

a property of the conic sections by virtue of which a given point determines a corresponding right line and a given right line determines a corresponding point. See Polar, n