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publicity

noun
/pʌbˈlɪsɪti/

Etymology

From French publicité, From Medieval Latin pūblicitātem, accusative singular of pūblicitās, from Latin pūblicus (“public, general”). Morphologically public + -ity.

  1. derived from pūblicus
  2. derived from pūblicitātem
  3. derived from publicité

Definitions

  1. Advertising or other activity designed to rouse public interest in something.

    • A gay man accused of disorderly conduct for posting publicity for a Boston gay event was found not guilty in Cambridge District Court on July 22.

  2. Public interest attracted in this way.

    • Any publicity, runs the axiom, is good publicity.

  3. The condition of being the object of public attention.

  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. The quality of being public, not private.

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Derived

all publicity is good publicity, antipublicity, nonpublicity, no such thing as bad publicity, overpublicity, prepublicity, publicity hound, publicity-hound, publicity stunt, right of publicity, there is no such thing as bad publicity

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at publicity. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01publicity02public03local04directly05direct06shortest07least08est09promote

A definitional loop anchored at publicity. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at publicity

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA