In chemistry, polarity is a separation of electric charge leading to a molecule or its chemical groups having an electric dipole moment, with a negatively charged end and a positively charged end. Polar molecules must contain polar bonds due to a difference in electronegativity between the bonded atoms.

What is a polarity simple definition?

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.

What does polarity mean in a person?

If there is a polarity between two people or things, they are completely different from each other in some way. [formal] ...the polarities of good and evil. Synonyms: opposition, contradiction, paradox, ambivalence More Synonyms of polarity. Synonyms of.