Pronunciation Noun
energy
- The impetus behind all motion and all activity.
- The capacity to do work.
- 1915, G[eorge] A. Birmingham [pseudonym; James Owen Hannay], chapter I, in Gossamer, New York, N.Y.: George H. Doran Company, OCLC 5661828 ↗:
- There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy. […] Stewards, carrying cabin trunks, swarm in the corridors. Passengers wander restlessly about or hurry, with futile energy, from place to place.
- (physics) A quantity that denotes the ability to do work and is measured in a unit dimensioned in mass × distance²/time² (ML²/T²) or the equivalent.
- Units:
- SI: joule (J), kilowatt-hour (kW·h)
- CGS: erg (erg)
- Customary: foot-pound-force, calorie, kilocalorie (i.e. dietary calories), BTU, liter-atmosphere, ton of TNT
- Units:
- An intangible, modifiable force (often characterized as either 'positive' or 'negative') believed in some New Age religions to emanate from a person, place or thing and which is (or can be) preserved and transferred in human interactions; shared mood or group habit; a vibe, a feeling, an impression. (Compare aura.)
- 2004, Phylameana L. Desy, The Everything Reiki Book, Body, Mind & Spirit, p.130 ↗
- Reiki, much like prayer, is a personal exercise that can easily convert negative energy into positive energy.
- 2009, Christopher Johns, Becoming a Reflective Practitioner, John Wiley & Sons, p.15 ↗
- Negative feelings can be worked through and their energy converted into positive energy […]. In crisis, normal patterns of self-organization fail, resulting in anxiety (negative energy). Being open systems, people can exchange this energy with the environment and create positive energy for taking action based on a reorganisation of self as necessary to resolve the crisis and emerge at a higher level of consciousness; that is, until the next crisis.
- 2011, Anne Jones, Healing Negative Energies, Hachette, p.118 ↗
- If you have been badly affected by negative energy a salt bath is wonderful for clearing and cleansing yourself […]. Salt attracts negative energy and will draw it away from you.
- 2004, Phylameana L. Desy, The Everything Reiki Book, Body, Mind & Spirit, p.130 ↗
- (RPG, video games, board games) A measure of how many actions a player or unit can take; in the fantasy genre often called magic points or mana.
- Synonyms: action points
- French: énergie, courage
- German: Energie
- Italian: energia, forza
- Portuguese: energia
- Russian: эне́ргия
- Spanish: energía
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