different between popularity vs visibility

English

Etymology

popular +? -ity, from Latin popularitas (“an effort to please the people”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?p?p.j??læ?.?.ti/

Noun

popularity (usually uncountable, plural popularities)

1. The quality or state of being popular; especially, the state of being esteemed by, or of being in favor with, the people at large

2. (archaic) The quality or state of being adapted or pleasing to common, poor, or vulgar people; hence, cheapness; inferiority; vulgarity.
   • 1600, Ben Jonson, Every Man Out of His Humour

     So this Gallant, labouring to avoid Popularity, falls into a habit of Affectation, Ten thousand times hatefuller than the former.

3. (archaic) Something which obtains, or is intended to obtain, the favor of the vulgar; claptrap.
   • 1597, Francis Bacon, The Colours or Good and Evil

     Popularities, and circumstances which […] sway the ordinary judgment.

4. (obsolete) The act of courting the favour of the people.
   • 1603, Philemon Holland, translator, Moralia, by Plutarch

     Cato (the younger) charged Muraena, and indicted him in open court for popularity and ambition.

5. (archaic) Public sentiment; general passion.
   • 1834-1874, George Bancroft, History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent.

     A little time be allowed for the madness of popularity to cease.

Derived terms

• popularity contest

Translations

Further reading

• popularity in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• popularity in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

English

Etymology

From Middle French visibilité, from Late Latin visibilitas; equivalent to visible +? -ity.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?v?z.??b?l.?.ti/, /?v?z.??b?l.?.ti/, /?v?z.??b?l.?.ti/

Noun

visibility (countable and uncountable, plural visibilities)

1. (uncountable) The condition of being visible.
2. (countable) The degree to which things may be seen.

   The visibility from that angle was good.

3. (programming) The scope within which a variable or function is able to be accessed directly.
4. (obsolete, rare) Something worthy of being seen; a sight.
   • 1791, James Boswell, Life of Johnson, Oxford 2008, p. 658:

     ‘Sir, I have seen all the visibilities of Paris, and around it; but to have formed an acquaintance with the people there, would have required more time than I could stay.’

Synonyms

• apparency
• visibleness

Antonyms

• hiddenness
• invisibility
• latency

Derived terms

• high-visibility

Related terms

• visible
• visibly

Translations