unpopularityn.
/(ˌ)ʌnpɒpjᵿˈlarᵻti/, U.S. /ˌənˌpɑpjəˈlɛrədi/ The fact or condition of being disliked by many people or by a particular group of people; lack of popularity.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > unpopularity > [noun]
envy1598
invidiousness1694
unpopularity1716
non-popularity1834
1716 Arguments about Alteration of Triennial Elections 4/1 It will certainly be in the Power of those who most apprehend the Odium, and Unpopularity of this Action, to secure it from all possible Mis-representations.
1735 G. Lyttelton Lett. from Persian lxx. 214 You are afraid of the Unpopularity of the Sound.
1779 S. Johnson Dryden in Pref. Wks. Eng. Poets III. 263 The original impropriety, and the subsequent unpopularity of the subject.
1810 S. T. Coleridge Friend 355 The last War..had yet causes of unpopularity peculiar to itself.
1878 W. E. H. Lecky Hist. Eng. 18th Cent. I. iii. 432 The Government was now too weak to bear the strain of additional unpopularity.
1920 T. D. Robb in Thre Prestis of Peblis p. xxxv The unpopularity he thus incurred as an anglophile.
1964 A. S. Byatt Shadow of Sun xii. 251 At school she had several times fainted dramatically in prayers, which had increased her unpopularity with those in charge.
2008 P. B. Heymann Living Policy Process iv. xv. 326 The growing unpopularity of the war in Iraq in many countries.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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