Synonyms:
popularity
Meaning: 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"
Usage examples
POPULARITY.
Besides, local gods could not be ignored on account of their popularity.
This establishes my credit, proves my amiability, and confirms my popularity."
You don't suppose that I am going to risk my popularity with these Newport ladies by winning, do you?
'I know not whether I can heartily rejoice at the kind reception which you have found, or at the popularity to which you are exalted.
The Stuarts have found few apologists, for the dead cannot pay for praise; and who will, without reward, oppose the tide of popularity?
He was just as much of an autocrat, and just as much dependent upon the general popularity of his actions for the ability to maintain his autocracy.
But Josie Pye, if deficient in some qualities that make for popularity, had at least a natural and inborn gift, duly cultivated, for walking board fences.
He had been minister somewhere for a very long time, so that the memory of man hardly ran back beyond it, and was said to have gained for himself very extensive popularity.
He went a little to chapel, not at all to the chase, never to the opera. Incorruptible by sacristans, by whippers-in, by ballet-dancers; this made a part of his bourgeois popularity.