publicity

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɪsɪti

Noun

publicity (usually uncountable, plural publicities)

1. Advertising or other activity designed to rouse public interest in something.
2. Public interest attracted in this way.
3. The condition of being the object of public attention.

Derived terms

Terms derived from publicity

• publicity hound

• publicity stunt

Related terms

Terms etymologically related to publicity

• public

• publicist

• publicness

Translations

advertising or other activity designed to rouse public interest in something

• Armenian: գովազդ (hy) (govazd)
• Catalan: publicitat f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 宣傳 (zh), 宣传 (zh) (xuānchuán)

• Dutch: publiciteit (nl)
• Esperanto: reklamo
• French: publicité (fr) f
• German: Werbung (de) f
• Greek: διαφήμιση (el) f (diafímisi)
• Irish: bolscaireacht (ga) f

• Italian: pubblicità (it)
• Japanese: 宣伝 (ja) (せんでん, senden), 広報 (ja) (こうほう, kōhō)
• Malay: publisiti, pengiklanan, seranta
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: publisitet m

  Nynorsk: publisitet m

• Portuguese: publicidade (pt) f
• Romanian: publicitate (ro) f
• Russian: рекла́ма (ru) f (rekláma), пабли́сити (ru) n (pablísiti)
• Spanish: publicidad (es) f
• Swedish: publicitet (sv) c

public interest attracted in this way

• Catalan: publicitat f
• Dutch: publiciteit (nl)
• Greek: δημοσιότητα (el) f (dimosiótita)

• Malay: publisiti
• Romanian: publicitate (ro) f
• Russian: сла́ва (ru) f (sláva), изве́стность (ru) f (izvéstnostʹ)

the condition of being the object of public attention

• Armenian: հրապարակայնություն (hy) (hraparakaynutʿyun)
• Greek: δημοσιότητα (el) f (dimosiótita)

• Malay: publisiti
• Russian: гла́сность (ru) f (glásnostʹ), пабли́сити (ru) n (pablísiti)