PUBLICITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does publicity mean? 

• PUBLICITY (noun)
  The noun PUBLICITY has 2 senses:

1. a message issued in behalf of some product or cause or idea or person or institution

2. the quality of being open to public view

  Familiarity information: PUBLICITY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PUBLICITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A message issued in behalf of some product or cause or idea or person or institution

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

packaging; promo; promotion; promotional material; publicity

Context example:

the packaging of new ideas

Hypernyms ("publicity" is a kind of...):

content; message; subject matter; substance (what a communication that is about something is about)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "publicity"):

buildup (highly favorable publicity and praise)

PR; public relations (a promotion intended to create goodwill for a person or institution)

blurb; endorsement; indorsement (a promotional statement (as found on the dust jackets of books))

ballyhoo; hoopla; hype; plug (blatant or sensational promotion)

pitch; sales pitch; sales talk (promotion by means of an argument and demonstration)

ad; advert; advertisement; advertising; advertizement; advertizing (a public promotion of some product or service)

sales promotion (promotion that supplements or coordinates advertising)

Holonyms ("publicity" is a part of...):

marketing (the commercial processes involved in promoting and selling and distributing a product or service)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The quality of being open to public view

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Context example:

the publicity of the court room

Hypernyms ("publicity" is a kind of...):

quality (an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone)

Derivation:

public (not private; open to or concerning the people as a whole)

 Context examples 

Or you may have the kind of publicity you only used to dream about.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

At first, so great was his disgust with the magazines and all bourgeois society, Martin fought against publicity; but in the end, because it was easier than not to, he surrendered.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

We want no audience, no publicity.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

It seemed too precious an offering for any degree of publicity.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

I need not say that any publicity given to such an idea—any levity in your narrative of what occurred—would be exceedingly offensive to me.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

If you leave it to a court of law to clear the matter up, said he, of course you can hardly avoid publicity.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But it is also possible that menu labelling could change what outlets serve, as nutritionally-poor food could lead to bad publicity.

(Menu labelling linked to less fat and salt in food, University of Cambridge)

They condescended occasionally to poetry or oratory; and Byron, Charles James Fox, Sheridan, and Castlereagh, preserved some reputation amongst them, in spite of their publicity.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In recording from time to time some of the curious experiences and interesting recollections which I associate with my long and intimate friendship with Mr. Sherlock Holmes, I have continually been faced by difficulties caused by his own aversion to publicity.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She had never been staying there before, without being struck by it, or without wishing that other Elliots could have her advantage in seeing how unknown, or unconsidered there, were the affairs which at Kellynch Hall were treated as of such general publicity and pervading interest; yet, with all this experience, she believed she must now submit to feel that another lesson, in the art of knowing our own nothingness beyond our own circle, was become necessary for her; for certainly, coming as she did, with a heart full of the subject which had been completely occupying both houses in Kellynch for many weeks, she had expected rather more curiosity and sympathy than she found in the separate but very similar remark of Mr and Mrs Musgrove: So, Miss Anne, Sir Walter and your sister are gone; and what part of Bath do you think they will settle in?

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)