Popularity

Latin popularitas an effort to please the people

Full definition of popularity

(usually uncountable; plural popularities)

The quality or state of being popular; especially, the state of being esteemed by, or of being in favor with, the people at large; good will or favor proceeding from the people; as, the popularity of a law, statesman, or a book.
(archaic) The quality or state of being adapted or pleasing to common, poor, or vulgar people; hence, cheapness; inferiority; vulgarity.This gallant laboring to avoid popularity falls into a habit of affectation. — Ben Jonson.
(archaic) Something which obtains, or is intended to obtain, the favor of the vulgar; claptrap.Popularities, and circumstances which ... sway the ordinary judgment. — Bacon.
(obsolete) The act of courting the favour of the people.Indicted ... for popularity and ambition. — Holland.
(archaic) Public sentiment; general passion.A little time be allowed for the madness of popularity to cease. — Bancroft.