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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
popularity
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a popularity contest (=to decide which person people like the most)
▪ The competition has turned into a popluarity contest.
a popularity poll (=measuring how popular someone is)
▪ In most popularity polls, he is in fourth or fifth place.
an approval/popularity rating
▪ His popularity rating remains high.
gain popularity
▪ Governments gain popularity by cutting taxes.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
continuing
▪ Among the problems it faces are: the continuing popularity of the service amongst the general public.
▪ This has been used as evidence of the continuing popularity of marriage.
enormous
▪ In spite of her enormous popularity and the huge attraction she held for men throughout her life she remained incredibly insecure.
▪ The Columbia program was enjoying enormous popularity because it offered the widest possible latitude both in studies and in its entrance requirements.
▪ In the West its enormous popularity was as a love story set against the epic background of the Revolution and its aftermath.
▪ These are all reasons for Schiffer's enormous popularity.
▪ Rawlings's friends and foes alike say he survived only because of the enormous popularity with which he began his rule.
▪ The museum authorities wanted the work removed after the filming was completed despite the statue's enormous popularity.
▪ These, as they appeared one by one in the pages of the Strand Magazine, attracted enormous popularity.
great
▪ Portacaval shunt surgery has not enjoyed great popularity because of the very high incidence of postoperative encephalopathy in the elderly.
▪ The area of its greatest popularity seems to be in Addergoole Parish, Ireland.
▪ Imagine the losses that must have occurred in them during the years of Harrogate's greatest popularity.
▪ The program gained a great deal of popularity among state and local officials as well as in Congress.
▪ Funk, which in the late seventies was enjoying great popularity in the South and Midwest, was rarely on their playlists.
▪ It is this psychological underpinning which explains the sudden great popularity of the story.
▪ In fact, the clarity that Kathy Switzer describes is one of the reasons for the great popularity of the sport.
▪ However, Historical Romances achieved even greater popularity during the two decades that followed.
growing
▪ The growing popularity of the telephone is not, however, without its problems.
▪ Banks appear to be growing in popularity: a year ago only 17 percent would have bought life cover through a bank.
▪ And there was further evidence of the growing popularity of Waterstones and Dillons vouchers.
▪ One theory for its growing mainstream popularity is that contemporary values are merging with country sentiments.
▪ Nor do they deny the growing popularity of Bolshevik rather than Menshevik slogans and strategy in the pre-war years.
▪ One reason for the later age at marriage is the growing popularity of premarital cohabitation.
immense
▪ That sense is still lacking on the World Wide Web, despite its immense popularity.
increasing
▪ An additional factor is the increasing popularity or cremation.
personal
▪ Mr Ashdown's personal popularity is also reflected in a separate Gallup poll measuring the standing of the parties.
▪ The end result was a sort of Ponzi scheme of personal popularity that had its parallels in the markets.
▪ He then used his personal popularity and legitimacy to win public support for his regime.
▪ But Reagan was unable to transfer his great personal popularity into support for his policies.
▪ Mrs Thatcher was, of course, strongly identified with the tax and her personal popularity plummeted as a consequence.
▪ A former consultant gastroenterologist at Stobhill Hospital Sir Thomas has enjoyed personal popularity.
political
▪ In Chechnya he quickly gained political popularity, was elected president and declared his republic an independent nation in 1991.
■ NOUN
contest
▪ It will be a popularity contest.
▪ Popularity is nice, but this is no popularity contest.
▪ Like most goods, stocks are a kind of popularity contest.
rating
▪ The president's popularity ratings are at a record low.
■ VERB
achieve
▪ His is the only post-war body of symphonic and chamber music to achieve genuine popularity.
▪ However, Historical Romances achieved even greater popularity during the two decades that followed.
decline
▪ Over the years, zoos have declined in popularity.
▪ After many years of declining popularity, the lowly rhubarb is making a comeback in both gourmet and gardening circles.
▪ After that it declined rapidly in popularity.
enjoy
▪ Norbrook also recognises that the love lyric was not the only type of verse to enjoy popularity in the Renaissance.
▪ Funk, which in the late seventies was enjoying great popularity in the South and Midwest, was rarely on their playlists.
▪ Alesis reverb units are par for the course in home studios; and their 3630 should enjoy the same popularity.
▪ The Historical Romance attracted numerous new practitioners and for the next several decades it enjoyed widespread popularity.
▪ No-one has enjoyed such popularity over such a wide range of colleagues from the very junior to the very senior.
▪ And Mazursky was reassuring in noting that hot toy items typically enjoy popularity for three to five years, then fade.
▪ They knew that Nkrumah enjoyed a popularity which none of them could emulate.
▪ The Columbia program was enjoying enormous popularity because it offered the widest possible latitude both in studies and in its entrance requirements.
explain
▪ It is this psychological underpinning which explains the sudden great popularity of the story.
▪ Meat's taste, for example, can not explain its popularity, for flavour is not an absolute quality.
gain
▪ But it has gained amazingly in popularity.
▪ Another, newer type of yeast is gaining in popularity.
▪ So why is complementary medicine gaining popularity?
▪ A strategy rapidly gaining popularity is to use three of them at once.
▪ Although still carrying the hallmarks of a true fishing port, Padstow is fast gaining ground in the popularity stakes.
▪ His fortunes slip as competing styles gain popularity.
▪ The desire to cut taxes Governments gain popularity by cutting taxes, not by increasing them.
▪ Talk radio and talk television hosts, mostly but by no means all conservative, are proliferating and gaining influence and popularity.
grow
▪ Skating is responsible for the growing popularity of nordic resorts in Northern California.
▪ Unit-linked policies by and large have performed fairly well over the last few years and have consequently been growing in popularity.
▪ The quest for big game has grown in popularity.
▪ Cohabitation between marriages has also grown in popularity.
▪ The center has grown in popularity.
▪ Programs for interactive analysis, such as Egret, S, and its derivative SPlus, are growing in popularity.
▪ Wraps growing popularity makes them easily accessible.
increase
▪ There's still a growing gap between the rich and poor, despite the increasing popularity of the Internet.
▪ Frozen food has greatly increased in popularity ever since Clarence Birdseye popularized frozen peas during the 1920s.
▪ The Youth Club has increased in popularity this session and has a thriving expanding membership.
▪ However, according to many suppliers, pasta shapes are rapidly increasing in popularity.
▪ Employee trusts Employee trusts have increased in popularity over the past decade or so as a method of providing incentives for employees.
▪ Threats to expropriate, always a gimmick to increase popularity, never materialised.
▪ With golf still increasing in popularity, this upward trend shows no sign of abating.
lose
▪ But it continues to lose popularity - for all the wrong reasons.
▪ As President Boris Yeltsin has lost popularity, he has made concessions to nationalist views.
▪ The President wants a motorcade because the polls show he is losing popularity by the minute.
rise
▪ Quickly rising in popularity due to its magnificent white sand beach, Kuantan is one of the east coast's finest resorts.
▪ Changing reader habits are also spurring the rising popularity of alternative weeklies.
win
▪ It now has to become a modern social democratic party which can win because of the popularity of its vision.
▪ Activity in these roles absorbs most of his time and energy: it will win him the popularity essential to his reelection.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
in the popularity/fashion etc stakes
▪ Although still carrying the hallmarks of a true fishing port, Padstow is fast gaining ground in the popularity stakes.
▪ They are running neck-and-neck in the popularity stakes.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Lee's popularity started to fade somewhat.
▪ The popularity of cellular phones has grown in the last five years.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A high number of singular military displays more than took up the slack, riding a post- Desert Storm popularity wave.
▪ Another, newer type of yeast is gaining in popularity.
▪ Attempts to denigrate his playing simply because of his popularity are misplaced but regrettably widespread.
▪ But prolonged recession and high unemployment knocked his popularity down to rock-bottom.
▪ Cohabitation between marriages has also grown in popularity.
▪ Margaret profited too from her sister's popularity and the relaxation in rules.
▪ Nicholas Ferrar's wide popularity is quite recent.
▪ Rawlings's friends and foes alike say he survived only because of the enormous popularity with which he began his rule.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Popularity

Popularity \Pop`u*lar"i*ty\, n.; pl. Popularities. [L. popularitas an effort to please the people: cf. F. popularit['e].]

  1. 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.

    A popularity which has lasted down to our time.
    --Macaulay.

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

    This gallant laboring to avoid popularity falls into a habit of affectation.
    --B. Jonson.

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

    Popularities, and circumstances which . . . sway the ordinary judgment.
    --Bacon.

  4. The act of courting the favor of the people. [Obs.] ``Indicted . . . for popularity and ambition.''
    --Holland.

  5. Public sentiment; general passion. [R.]

    A little time be allowed for the madness of popularity to cease.
    --Bancroft.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
popularity

"fact or condition of being beloved by the people," c.1600, from French popularité (15c.), from popular + -ity. Classical Latin popularitas meant "fellow-citizenship." Popularity contest is from 1880.

Wiktionary
popularity

n. 1 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. 2 (context archaic English) The quality or state of being adapted or pleasing to common, poor, or vulgar people; hence, cheapness; inferiority; vulgarity. 3 (context archaic English) Something which obtains, or is intended to obtain, the favor of the vulgar; claptrap. 4 (context obsolete English) The act of courting the favour of the people. 5 (context archaic English) Public sentiment; general passion.

WordNet
popularity

n. 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" [ant: unpopularity]

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Wikipedia
Popularity

In sociology, the popularity of a person, idea, item or other concept can be defined in terms of liking, attraction, dominance and superiority. With respect to interpersonal popularity, there are two primary divisions: perceived and sociometric.

According to psychologist Tessa Lansu at the Radboud University Nijmegen, "Popularity [has] to do with being the middle point of a group and having influence on it."

Popularity (album)

Popularity is Jonezetta's debut album, released by Tooth & Nail Records on October 3, 2006.

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Usage examples of "popularity".

And with us the ruddy Solanum has obtained a wide popularity not simply at table as a tasty cooling sallet, or an appetising stew, but essentially as a supposed antibilious purifier of the blood.

Her parents had told her that those were much more important than winning popularity contests, but Marcie was smart enough to know better.

His popularity might have been because he taught in an informal manner, often relating anecdotes and digressing into such topics as astronomy, meteorology, geology, biology, and agronomy, even balloon navigation and the use of artillery.

The international popularity of manga and anime means that plenty of translated titles are available for monoglots like me.

Whatever the troubadours and minnesingers may have done toward establishing a metrical melodic form of monophonic character was soon obliterated by the swift popularity of part singing and the immense vogue of the secular songs of the polyphonic composers.

Because of the progress and popularity of Montayne overseas, questions now being asked publicly were: Why was FDA taking so long to decide?

Stonewashed jeans had declined in popularity and the market for Jemez Mountains perlite had significantly diminished.

At this time the Regent Grill was enjoying one of those bursts of popularity for which restaurateurs pray to whatever strange gods they worship.

True, there was still enormous popularity for the old-time religious revivalists, and Billy Graham commanded the obedience of millions, but now there were small swift currents against the mainstream.

Philadelphian named George Scithers, had got the magazine off to a fast start, with Asimov himself as a benign guiding presence in the background, and it grew so quickly in popularity that its publishing frequency increased from quarterly at the outset to bi-monthly in 1978 and monthly a year later.

Certainly, it was not a little staggering when the Sieurs Fauvel and Lusieri, the two greatest demagogues of the day, who divide between them the power of Pericles and the popularity of Cleon, and puzzle the poor Waywode with perpetual differences, agreed in the utter condemnation of the Greeks in general, and of the Athenians in particular.

He was supported by the powerful influence of Charles Sumner, then at the height of his popularity, and by Adin Thayer, the ablest political organizer in Massachusetts.

It was Adams, and the damage done was extreme, given the overwhelming popularity of both Thomas Paine and the French Revolution.

In two sweltering weeks, their popularity and confidence never higher, the Federalist majority in Congress passed into law extreme measures that Adams had not asked for or encouraged.

Shakspere--and of Moliere also, altho in a less degree--is evidenced not only by their eager adoption of an accepted type of play, an outer form of approved popularity, it is obvious also in their plots, wherein we find situations, episodes, incidents drawn from all sorts of sources.