popularity
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Is popularity a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (archaic) The quality or state of being adapted or pleasing to common, poor, or vulgar peopleExamples: "So this Gallant, labouring to avoid Popularity, falls into a habit of Affectation, Ten thousand times hatefuller than the former."archaicuncountableusually
2. (archaic) The quality or state of being adapted or pleasing to common, poor, or vulgar peoplearchaicbroadlyuncountableusually
3. (archaic) Something which obtains, or is intended to obtain, the favor of the vulgar; claptrap.Examples: "Popularities, and circumstances which […] sway the ordinary judgment."archaicuncountableusually
4. (obsolete) The act of courting the favour of the people.Examples: "Cato (the younger) charged Muraena, and indicted him in open court for popularity and ambition."obsoleteuncountableusually
5. (archaic) Public sentiment; general passion.Examples: "A little time be allowed for the madness of popularity to cease."archaicuncountableusually
Definition source: Wiktionary