electricity

noun electricities

1. uncountable, usually Originally, a property of amber and certain other nonconducting substances to attract lightweight material when rubbed, or the cause of this property; now understood to be a phenomenon caused by the distribution and movement of charged subatomic particles and their interaction with the electromagnetic field. Again, the concretion of Ice will not endure a dry attrition without liquation ; for if it be rubbed long with a cloth, it melteth. But Cryſtal will calefie unto electricity ; that is, a power to attract ſtraws or light bodies, and convert the needle freely placed.
2. uncountable, usually The study of electrical phenomena; the branch of science dealing with such phenomena. He took up the job of studying electricity in college.
3. uncountable, usually A feeling of excitement; a thrill. Opening night for the new production had an electricity unlike other openings.
4. uncountable, usually Electrical power, as supplied by power stations or generators. This heater draws more than a thousand watts of electricity.
5. uncountable, usually Electrical energy, as supplied by power stations or generators. Last year this portion of the grid consumed more than a thousand megawatt-hours of electricity.
6. attributive, often, uncountable, usually The supply of electricity, as a utility. Electricity bosses set to make record profits.