单词 | popularness |
释义 | popularnessn. Now rare. The condition or quality of being popular (in various senses); popularity; populousness. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > population > [noun] > density of populacy1597 populousness1601 popularity1654 populosity1720 popularness1727 condensity1814 habitancy1837 areality1881 the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > quality of being approvable or acceptable > popularity > [noun] > desire for popularity popularness1727 1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Popularness, a being full of People; also an Affectedness of popular Applause. 1818 S. T. Coleridge Friend (new ed.) I. 32 That ensnaring meretricious popularness in Literature. 1898 Eng. Hist. Rev. 13 809 The party in power may have offended James by its ‘popularness’, but its leaders..were assuredly not puritans. 1965 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 86 141 Neither in these nor in other examples I have seen could one point to any non-linguistic token of ‘learnedness’ and ‘popularness’ inherent in the words or their presumed users. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1727 |
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