popularity

noun popularities

1. uncountable, usually The quality or state of being popular; especially, the state of being widely liked or in favor with the people at large. This destination has increased in popularity after great reviews in the guide books.
2. archaic, uncountable, usually The quality or state of being adapted or pleasing to common, poor, or vulgar people So this Gallant, labouring to avoid Popularity, falls into a habit of Affectation, Ten thousand times hatefuller than the former.
3. archaic, broadly, uncountable, usually cheapness; inferiority; vulgarity.
4. archaic, uncountable, usually Something which obtains, or is intended to obtain, the favor of the vulgar; claptrap. Popularities, and circumstances which […] sway the ordinary judgment.
5. obsolete, uncountable, usually The act of courting the favour of the people. Cato (the younger) charged Muraena, and indicted him in open court for popularity and ambition.
6. archaic, uncountable, usually Public sentiment; general passion. A little time be allowed for the madness of popularity to cease.
7. uncountable, usually Something that is popular. It has fairly reeled on Schiedam Schnapps; and even the infant has his little popularities, having passed from catnip and caraway to Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. There is never a time when the public will not declare upon any well-advertised remedy its belief in the motto of the German doctors, "W