semipopularities
yəˈlær noun
1.
the quality or fact of being popular.
2.
the favor of the general public or of a particular group of people: His popularity with television audiences is unrivaled.
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| —adj | |
| 1. | appealing to the general public; widely favoured or admired |
| 2. | favoured by an individual or limited group: I'm not very popular with her |
| 3. | connected with, representing, or prevailing among the general public; common: popular discontent |
| 4. | appealing to or comprehensible to the layman: a popular lecture on physics |
| —n | |
| 5. | (usually plural) Also shortened to: pops cheap newspapers with mass circulation; the popular press |
| [C15: from Latin populāris belonging to the people, democratic, from populus people] | |
| popularity | |
| —n | |
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