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virality

noun

Etymology

From viral + -ity.

  1. derived from *wisós✻
  2. derived from *weizos✻
  3. derived from vīrus
  4. inherited from virus
  5. formed as viral — “virus + -al”
  6. suffixed as virality — “viral + ity”

Definitions

  1. The state or condition of being viral

    The state or condition of being viral: tendency to spread by word of mouth or memetic action.

    • The point is virality—content so outlandish that people can’t help but talk about it.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for virality. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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