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publicity
/pəˈblɪsəti/
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What does publicity mean?
noun
- Advertising or other activity designed to rouse public interest in something.
- Public interest attracted in this way.
- The condition of being the object of public attention.
More meanings (1)
noun
- The quality of being public, not private.
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IPA pronunciation
/pəˈblɪsəti/
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Indeed she seemed to him, fiercely tormenting himself with her loveliness, a symbol of the mysterious and subtle power of publicity.
Thus the privilege of production is a real loss to society, and publicity of industry, like competition between laborers, a necessity.
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A policy of publicity superseded the secrecy which had naturally grown to be a habit in the days of patent litigation.
It was like the small town in the chance which it afforded for publicity and community of pursuits among its inhabitants.
“It is not because I don’t want to see you any more,” he declared, in a tone intended as it were for publicity.