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publicity

[ puh-blis-i-tee ]

noun

  1. extensive mention in the news media or by word of mouth or other means of communication.
  2. public notice so gained.
  3. the measures, process, or business of securing public notice.
  4. information, articles, or advertisements issued to secure public notice or attention.
  5. the state of being public, or open to general observation or knowledge.


publicity

/ pʌˈblɪsɪtɪ /

noun

    1. the technique or process of attracting public attention to people, products, etc, as by the use of the mass media
    2. ( as modifier )

      a publicity agent

  1. public interest resulting from information supplied by such a technique or process
  2. information used to draw public attention to people, products, etc
  3. the state of being public


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Other Words From

  • nonpub·lici·ty noun
  • over·pub·lici·ty noun
  • propub·lici·ty adjective
  • super·pub·lici·ty noun

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Word History and Origins

Origin of publicity1

1785–95; < French publicité < Medieval Latin pūblicitās. See public, -ity

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Word History and Origins

Origin of publicity1

C18: via French from Medieval Latin pūblicitās; see public

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Example Sentences

They weren’t always in our meetings because we were more with A&R and publicity and stylists but when they were around, they were very approachable, very hands on.

That group has received wide publicity for its involvement in lockdown protests at the state Capitol in Lansing.

With fame comes more to lose, less need for publicity outside of your control.

From Vox

This also comes as Fortnite-maker Epic Games is waging a legal battle and publicity campaign against Apple’s App Store fees, with Fortnite removed from the iOS App Store.

The Vostok paper got a lot of publicity and sent me on a whole new trajectory — looking for life under the ice sheet.

Betrayal…you can hear it…betraying the thing he loves for a cheap bit of film publicity.

There was no publicity at the time about the deal he made with an old connection from his days at Yale.

In 1945 or 1946, Hitch and Alma were in New York with Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman, on a publicity tour.

Now that he was Sir Alfred, there was one final blast of publicity.

He's dazzling, fielding questions, spinning out anecdotes and limericks, sounding 35 and hungry for publicity.

Mr. Brown seizes the proffered member, and gives it as hearty a pressure as the publicity of the occasion will permit.

Please advise the surrender as soon as possible in order to give due and solemn publicity to the event.

But few knew of this her literary streak, as her mother styled it, for she dreaded any publicity.

For one deathless moment his genius had carried him to the heights, and a white blaze of publicity had given him a halo of glory.

She did it with publicity, too, kneeling on the chunam floor of the chapel for an hour at a time explaining matters.

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