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say it: pah-pyuh-LER-uh-tee
popularity is a noun meaning "the quality of being widely admired or accepted or sought after". It is pronounced /ˌpɑpjəˈlɛɹəti/ — pah-pyuh-LER-uh-tee. It carries one recorded sense.
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”
Forms marked are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for popularity come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.