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The quality of lacking general approval or acceptance
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unpopularity
Word definitions for unpopularity in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1735, from un- (1) "not" + popularity (n.).
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Unpopularity , the opposite of popularity , is the quality of lacking acceptance or approval by one's peers.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the quality of lacking general approval or acceptance [ant: popularity ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. the property or degree of being unpopular
Usage examples of unpopularity.
The consulars also and senior members, from the hatred of tribunitian power still rankling in their bosoms, the desire of which they considered was much more keenly felt by the commons than that of the consular power, almost had rather that the decemvirs themselves should voluntarily resign their office at some future period, than that the people should rise once more into consequence through their unpopularity.
In his struggle, he had the support of a number of neo-Kantians who, making use of the sudden unpopularity of Nietzschean ideas, had taken control of the wellsprings of power among the intelligentsia, the universities and the press.
Madame de Polignac was most unpopular with all classes, and that her unpopularity was not undeserved.
Initial proctitis and the inevit4ble purulent discharge -- which may pass unnoticed in the shuRe -- is followed by stricture of the rectum requiring intervention of an apple corer or its surgical equivalent, lest the unfortunate patient be reduced to fart and shit in his teeth giving rise to stubborn cases of halitosis and unpopularity with all sexes, ages and conditions of homo sapiens.
It had come from Beaton at the last moment, as a compromise, when the problem of the vulgar croppiness of cut leaves and the unpopularity of uncut leaves seemed to have no solution but suicide.
On the other hand, unpopularity had never lowered his spirits: he strode along carolling to the skies, and meditating on the infinite variety of the accidents of travel.
The unpopularity of a late Vice-Resident had begun the movement of exodus, his native employes resigning court appointments and retiring each to his own coco-patch in the remoter districts of the isle.
At least in the next war there won't be any special wimps, punchbags, or unpopularity contests.
When it had become clear to Sextus what his father meant him to understand by his mysterious silent action, he proceeded to get rid of the foremost men of the State by traducing some of them to the people, whilst others fell victims to their own unpopularity.