Definition of Popularity

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Popularity

The quality or state of being popular; especially, the state of being esteemed by, or of being in favor with, the people at large; good will or favor proceeding from the people; as, the popularity of a law, statesman, or a book.

The quality or state of being adapted or pleasing to common, poor, or vulgar people; hence, cheapness; inferiority; vulgarity.

Something which obtains, or is intended to obtain, the favor of the vulgar; claptrap.

The act of courting the favor of the people.

Public sentiment; general passion.

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Popularity Quotations

Avoid popularity if you would have peace.
Abraham Lincoln

When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it's because he's so human; and that is the secret of his popularity.
Walt Disney

There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.
Edgar Allan Poe

Popularity is exhausting. The life of the party almost always winds up in a corner with an overcoat over him.
Wilson Mizner

Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate.
Orson Welles

Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
Dave Barry

I wouldn't say I invented tacky, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity.
Bette Midler

An actor's popularity is fleeting. His success has the life expectancy of a small boy who is about to look into a gas tank with a lighted match.
Fred Allen

To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.
Aldous Huxley

When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people.
Edmund Burke

Popularity Translations

popularity in Spanish is popularidad
popularity in Swedish is popularitet

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