popularities
- 1Plural of popularity. Rare.
The relative popularities of the two candidates shifted sharply in the weeks before the election.
Surveys tracked the popularities of several social media platforms across the decade.
Note
A plural formed from a mostly uncountable noun, so it appears only when favor is being measured and compared: the relative popularities of two candidates, or of rival platforms. One older use was countable by nature. A popularity could be a piece of claptrap meant to win the crowd, and in that archaic sense popularities were the bids for favor themselves, not the standing they earned.
popularities is a form of popularity
popularity, noun: The state of being widely liked or favored by people in general. Full entry
- Forms
- popularitypopularities plural
- Spelling
- popularity → popularities: change y to i, add -es
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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