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Backlash vs Publicity - What's the difference?

backlash | publicity |

As nouns the difference between backlash and publicity

is that backlash is a sudden backward motion while publicity is advertising or other activity designed to rouse public interest in something.

As a verb backlash

is to cause or set off a backlash.

backlash

English

Noun

(es)
  • A sudden backward motion.
  • A reaction, objection or outcry, especially of a violent or abrupt nature.
  • The public backlash to the proposal was quick and insistent.
  • (mechanics) The distance through which one part of connected machinery, as a wheel, piston, or screw, can be moved without moving the connected parts, resulting from looseness in fitting or from wear.
  • The jarring or reflex motion caused in badly fitting machinery by irregularities in velocity or a reverse of motion.
  • Verb

  • To cause or set off a backlash.
  • (en)

    publicity

    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.
  • Derived terms

    * publicity hound * publicity stunt