publicity

English

Etymology

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

Morphologically public +‎ -ity

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɪsɪti

Noun

publicity (usually uncountable, plural publicities)

1. Advertising or other activity designed to rouse public interest in something.
   • 1963 February, “Nobody runs this railway, mate”, in Modern Railways, page 73:

     Any publicity, runs the axiom, is good publicity.

2. Public interest attracted in this way.
3. The condition of being the object of public attention.

Derived terms

Terms derived from publicity

• no such thing as bad 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)
• Bulgarian: реклама (bg) f (reklama)
• Catalan: publicitat (ca) 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 (ca) 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)
• Bulgarian: публичност (bg) f (publičnost), гласност (bg) f (glasnost)
• Greek: δημοσιότητα (el) f (dimosiótita)

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