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popularness

popularness noun: the quality or state of being popular; popularity.

Noun

popularness (uncountable)

  1. The quality or state of being popular; popularity.
    • There will succeed, therefore, in my opinion, and that too within no long time, to the rudeness and rusticity of our age, that ensnaring meretricious popularness in literature, with all the tricksy humilities of the ambitious candidates for the favourable suffrages of the judicious public, which if...1809, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Friend

Origin of popularness

From popular + -ness.

Questions about popularness

What does popularness mean?
Popularness means the quality or state of being popular; popularity.
What part of speech is popularness?
Popularness is a noun.

Words near popularness in the dictionary

  1. popularizer
  2. popularizers
  3. popularizes
  4. popularizing
  5. popularly
  6. popularness
  7. populars
  8. populatable
  9. populate
  10. populated
  11. populates

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