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Definition: Popularity |
PopularityNoun1. The quality of being widely admired or accepted or sought after: "his charm soon won him affection and popularity"; "the universal popularity of American movies". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "popularity" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1598. (references) |
| Antonym: unpopularity (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Approbation | Noun: approbation; approval, approvement; sanction, advocacy; nod of approbation; esteem, estimation, good opinion, golden opinions, admiration; love; appreciation, regard, account, popularity, gr/kudos/gr, credit; repute; best seller. |
Government | Election, poll, ballot, vote, referendum, recall, initiative, voice, suffrage, plumper, cumulative vote, plebiscitum, plebiscite, vox populi; electioneering; voting; Verb: elective franchise; straight ticket; opinion poll, popularity poll. |
Love | Attractiveness; popularity; favorite. |
Repute | Noun: distinction, mark, name, figure; repute, reputation; good repute, high repute; note, notability, notoriety, eclat, " the bubble reputation ", vogue, celebrity; fame, famousness; renown; popularity, aura popularis; approbation; credit, succes d'estime, prestige, talk of the town; name to conjure with. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Popularity |
| English words defined with "popularity": continued ♦ dazzling ♦ fad diet, fulgurant, fulgurous ♦ Janis Joplin, Joplin ♦ Popularities, popularity contest, Popularness ♦ stock ♦ unabated. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "popularity": Cherries ♦ grilf ♦ Hanlon's Razor, Hurlo-Thrumbo ♦ killer micro ♦ Moof ♦ Pamela ♦ rat dance ♦ SALES REPRESENTATIVE, RADIO AND TELEVISION TIME, SHAKESPEARE, Social Desirability, Sparrow, sport jumping ♦ TANSTAAFL, TMS 9900 ♦ UnixWare ♦ wheel bit. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Whatever happens to your popularity, stay yourself, don't change to please others. (Can't Buy Me Love; writing credit: Michael Swerdlick) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Author | Quotation |
Abraham Lincoln | Avoid popularity if you would have peace. |
Edwin Forrest | The actor's popularity is evanescent; applauded today, forgotten tomorrow. |
John Keats | I would jump down Etna for any public good -- but I hate a mawkish popularity. |
Lord Mansfield | True popularity is not the popularity which is followed after, but the popularity which follows after. |
Oscar Wilde | Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong. |
William Penn | Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | Her daughter enjoyed a most uncommon degree of popularity for a woman neither young, handsome, rich, nor married. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Hence comes the popularity of spring among thinkers. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | And young girls found each other and boasted shyly of their popularity and their prospects. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | An increasing problem of reptile-associated salmonellosis is caused by the growing popularity of pet iguanas. (references) | |
Cocaine has been labeled the drug of the 1980s and '90s, because of its extensive popularity and use during this period. (references) | ||
Hypnosis, first approved for medical use by the American Medical Association in 1958, continues to grow in popularity, especially as an adjunct to pain medication. (references) | ||
Business | California has recently gained popularity in Finland. (references) | |
Another indoor sport whose popularity is also growing is bowling. (references) | ||
Used-car financing is gaining in popularity among leasing companies. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Hong Kong | The Hong Kong University-based pollster, whose allegations in 2000 that the Government had pressured him to stop conducting polls on the Chief Executive's declining popularity, and led to the resignations of two senior University officials, continued his polling work unrestricted. (references) |
Mozambique | RTV is second only to Radio Mozambique's youth-oriented Radio Cidade in popularity, outside of broadcast times for soccer matches. (references) | |
Economic History | Japan | Cable TV's popularity with consumers continues to grow rapidly. (references) |
Human Rights | Syria | HRW claimed that such groups had grown in popularity in the preceding months, but that on February 18 the Government informed many leaders of such groups that their meetings could not be held without government permission. (references) |
Benin | The popularity of Devi continued during the year; there were occasional press reports that lauded him and his followers for using mob justice to restore order in the Mono-Couffo (southwest) regions. (references) | |
Minorities | Comoros | Islamic fundamentalism is growing in popularity as more students return to the country after studying Islamic subjects in foreign countries. (references) |
Political Economy | Panama | PA's popularity traditionally derives from Panama's rural "interior" provinces. (references) |
Japan | Today, two weeks before those elections are to take place, it appears that the LDP and its coalition members will ride Mr. Koizumi's extraordinary popularity to at least maintain its seats in the upper house election--even as the Japanese economy appears to be nosing into a recession. (references) | |
Ireland | Inflation is a concern and it remains to be seen whether the current administration would maintain its popularity if high levels of inflation continue. (references) | |
Travel | Australia | CDMA is relatively new to Australia, but increasing in popularity. (references) |
Georgia | English is the most widely used after Russian, and is gaining in popularity, although it is still not widespread among the business community. (references) | |
Taiwan | Western food is gaining in popularity, as can be seen from the many western-style restaurants and foreign fast food chains that have set up branches in Taiwan's large cities in recent years. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Guinea | Independent unions and confederations have gained popularity, such as the Free Union of Teachers and Researchers of Guinea, the Professional Union Federation for Education, and the National Organization for Free Trade Unions of Guinea. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
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Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | My Administration was able to launch a long sought after psychological readjustment and outreach program, unprecedented in its popularity, sensitivity and success. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Popularity" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.93% of the time. "Popularity" is used about 1,345 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.93% | 1,344 | 5,916 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.07% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,345 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "popularity": popularity contest ♦ popularity poll ♦ popularity rating. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "popularity": popularity-winning. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "popularity"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | popullaritet (celebrity, prevalence). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مجد (adoration, assiduous, canonize, celebrate, celebrity, diligent, enthrone, eulogize, exalt, extol, fame, glorify, glory, industrious, kudos, laborious, laud, laurels, luster, lustre, magnify, praise highly), حظوة (prestige), الشعبية, رواج (circulation, currency, saleability), شعبية (lower class, publicity, vogue). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | популярност (vogue). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 大众化. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | popularita, obliba (vogue). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | محبوبیت (Amicability), معروفیت (Renown), جلب محبوبیت عامه . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | suosio (favour), kansansuosio. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | popularité. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | popularität, beliebtheit (prevalence). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | δημοτικότητα. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | פופולריות, עממיות, א""ת צבור, א""" (affection, sympathy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | népiesség, népszerűség. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | ketenaran (fame). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | popolarit . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 輿望 (confidence, esteem, reputation), 評判 (arrant, fame, reputation), 知名度 (degree of familiarity), 盛" (prosperous), 人望 , 人受け , ポ"ュラー音楽 (American submarine, cross of a tomato and a potato, Polaris, Polaroid Camera, pomato, Pomeranian, poplar, poplin, popular music, popularism, population, pot-pourri), 気受け (favor), 好評 (favorable reputation), 大衆性 , 声望 (fame, reputation), 信望 (confidence). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | たいしゅうせい, ポ"ュラリティー , きうけ (favor), し"ぼう (atrium, axle, careful, chamber of the heart, confidence, deeply laid plan, deliberate, endurance, patience, shaft, thoughtful), ひょうば" (arrant, fame, reputation), ひとうけ, さか" (field officer, plasterer, prosperous), せいぼう (cap of a uniform, fame, power and popularity, regulation cap, reputation, school cap), "うひょう (criticism, criticize, favorable reputation, hailstorm, high reputation, official announcement, popular opinion, proclamation, review, your esteemed opinion), よぼう (aforethought, confidence, esteem, honor, precaution, premeditation, prevention, protection against, reputation), じ"ぼう, ちめいど (degree of familiarity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 인기. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | foayr cadjin, ennoilys (endearment, love), ennoilid (dearness, endearment, love, preciousness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | opularitypay adágio popular. (various references) popularitate (vogue), simpatie (approval, attraction, congeniality, countenance, fellow feeling, liking, love, regard, sympathy). (various references) популярность (vogue). (various references) popularnost, omiljenost. (various references) popularidad. (various references) popularitet (vogue). (various references) popülerlik, popülarite (vogue), tutulma (attack, being held, Crick, eclipse, fastening, go, immersion, kink), rağbette olma. (various references) популярність (availability, celebrity, fame, note, publicity, renown, repute, vogue). (various references) tính đại chúng tính phổ biến sự nổi tiếng, sự yêu mến của nhân dân, sự ưa thích của quần chúng. (various references) poblogrwydd. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words ending with "popularity": unpopularity. (additional references) | |
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"Popularity" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: populari, popularilty, populartiy. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "popularity" (pronounced pÄ'pyule"rutē) |
| 11 | p Ä' p y u l e" r u t ē | unpopularity. |
| 8 | -y u l e" r u t ē | irregularity, regularity. |
| 7 | -u l e" r u t ē | hilarity, insularity, similarity. |
| 6 | -l e" r u t ē | clarity, polarity. |
| 5 | -e" r u t ē | austerity, charity, dexterity, disparity, familiarity, parity, peculiarity, posterity, prosperity, rarity, severity, sincerity, solidarity, temerity, unfamiliarity, Verity, vulgarity. |
| 4 | -r u t ē | alacrity, authority, barbarity, celebrity, dissimilarity, immaturity, impurity, inferiority, insecurity, integrity, majority, maturity, mediocrity, minority, obscurity, particularity, priority, purity, security, seniority, sorority, superiority, supermajority, surety. |
| 3 | -u t ē | ability, abnormality, absurdity, acceptability, accessibility, accountability, acidity, activity, actuality, acuity, adaptability, admissibility, adversity, advisability, affinity, affordability, aggressivity, agility, alkalinity, ambiguity, amenity, amiability, amity, analyticity, animosity, annuity, anonymity, antiquity, anxiety, applicability, atrocity, audacity, authenticity, availability, banality, believability, bestiality, biodiversity, bisexuality, brevity, brutality, calamity, capability, capacity, captivity, causality, cavity, centrality, chastity, civility, collegiality, commodity, commonality, community, comparability, compatibility, complexity, complicity, comprehensibility, conditionality, conductivity, confidentiality, conformity, congeniality, congruity, connectivity, constitutionality, continuity, convertibility, creativity, credibility, credulity, criminality, criticality, crotchety, culpability, curiosity, cyclicality, debility, deductibility, deformity, deity, deniability, density, dependability, depravity, deputy, desirability, dignity, dimensionality, disability, discontinuity, disunity, diversity, divinity, docility, domesticity, duality, ductility, duplicity, durability, eccentricity, elasticity, electability, electricity, eligibility, enforceability, enmity, enormity, entity, equality, equanimity, equity, eternity, ethnicity, eventuality, exclusivity, expressivity, extraterritoriality, extremity, facility, fallibility, falsity, fatality, feasibility, Felicity, femininity, ferocity, fertility, festivity, fidelity, finality, flammability, flexibility, fluidity, formality, fragility, fraternity, frivolity, frugality, functionality, futility, generality, generosity, geniality, gentility, gratuity, gravity, gullibility, heredity, heterogeneity, heterosexuality, homogeneity, homosexuality, hospitality, hostility, humanity, humidity, humility, hyperactivity, hypersensitivity, identity, illegality, illiquidity, immobility, immorality, immortality, immunity, impartiality, impersonality, impossibility, impropriety, impunity, inability, inaccessibility, inactivity, incapacity, incivility, incompatibility, incongruity, incredulity, indemnity, indestructibility, indignity, individuality, inequality, inequity, inevitability, infallibility, infertility, infidelity, infinity, infirmity, inflexibility, informality, ingenuity, inhumanity, insanity, insensitivity, instability, instrumentality, intensity, invincibility, invisibility, invulnerability, irrationality, irresponsibility, irritability, laity, laxity, legality, legibility, lethality, levity, liability, liberality, liquidity, lividity, locality, longevity, malleability, maneuverability, marketability, masculinity, materiality, maternity, mendacity, mentality, miscibility, mobility, modality, modernity, monstrosity, morality, morbidity, mortality, motility, multiplicity, municipality, musicality, mutuality, nationality, nativity, necessity, negativity, neutrality, nobility, Nonconformity, nonentity, nonutility, normality, notoriety, nudity, obesity, objectivity, obscenity, oddity, opacity, opportunity, originality, overcapacity, oversensitivity, palatability, partiality, passivity, paternity, paucity, permeability, perpetuity, perplexity, personality, perversity, piety, plausibility, plurality, polity, pomposity, portability, possibility, practicality, predictability, principality, probability, probity, proclivity, productivity, profanity, profitability, progressivity, promiscuity, propensity, proportionality, propriety, proximity, publicity, punctuality, quality, quantity, radioactivity, rapidity, rationality, reactivity, readability, reality, receptivity, reciprocity, reflexivity, relativity, reliability, religiosity, respectability, responsibility, retroactivity, rickety, rigidity, salinity, sanctity, sanity, scarcity, seasonality, selectivity, senility, sensibility, sensitivity, sensuality, sentimentality, serendipity, serenity, sexuality, simplicity, sobriety, society, solemnity, solidity, speciality, specificity, spirituality, spontaneity, stability, sterility, stupidity, subjectivity, suitability, superconductivity, superfluidity, survivability, susceptibility, sustainability, technicality, tenacity, theatricality, timidity, tonality, totality, toxicity, tranquility, transferability, Trinity, triviality, turbidity, ubiquity, unanimity, unavailability, uniformity, unity, universality, university, unpredictability, unreality, unreliability, uppity, utility, validity, vanity, variability, variety, varsity, velocity, velvety, venality, veracity, versatility, viability, vicinity, virginity, virility, virtuosity, viscosity, visibility, vitality, volatility, voracity, vulnerability. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-i-l-o-p-p-r-t-u-y" | |
-2 letters: polarity, polyuria, pupilary, troupial. | |
-3 letters: orality, outplay, outpray, platypi, popular, poultry, propyla, pupilar, roupily, topiary. | |
-4 letters: aliyot, artily, laptop, layout, outlay, paltry, papyri, parity, partly, patrol, payout, polity, polypi, poplar, portal, portly, propyl, protyl, pulpit, purity, purply, pylori, pyrola, pyuria, raptly, rialto, ripply, ritual, ropily, tailor, torula, triply, trippy, uppity, utopia. | |
-5 letters: aport, apply. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-i-l-o-p-p-r-t-u-y" | |
+2 letters: supplicatory, unpopularity. | |
+3 letters: insupportably. | |
+4 letters: supportability. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 6F 70 75 6C 61 72 69 74 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. --- .--. ..- .-.. .- .-. .. - -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01101111 01110000 01110101 01101100 01100001 01110010 01101001 01110100 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P o p u l a r i t y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 006F 0070 0075 006C 0061 0072 0069 0074 0079 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)50818287786784758691 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Familiar 6. Quotations: Fiction 7. Quotations: Non-fiction 8. Quotations: Speeches | 9. Usage Frequency 10. Expressions 11. Expressions: Internet 12. Translations: Modern | 13. Derivations 14. Rhymes 15. Anagrams 16. Orthography | 17. Bibliography |
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