Popularity vs Esteem - What's the difference?
popularity | esteem | Synonyms |
The quality or state of being popular; especially, the state of being esteemed by, or of being in favor with, the people at large; good will or favor proceeding from the people; as, the popularity of a law, statesman, or a book.
(archaic) The quality or state of being adapted or pleasing to common, poor, or vulgar people; hence, cheapness; inferiority; vulgarity.
(archaic) Something which obtains, or is intended to obtain, the favor of the vulgar; claptrap.
(obsolete) The act of courting the favour of the people.
(archaic) Public sentiment; general passion.
favourable regard
To set a high value on; to regard with respect or reverence.
* Bible, Job xxxvi. 19
* Tennyson
To regard something as valuable; to prize.
To look upon something in a particular way.
* Bible, Deuteronomy xxxii. 15
* Bishop Gardiner
* Hawthorne
* 1843 , '', book 3, ch. V, ''The English
(obsolete) To judge; to estimate; to appraise
Popularity is a synonym of esteem.
In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between popularity and esteem
is that popularity is (obsolete) the act of courting the favour of the people while esteem is (obsolete) to judge; to estimate; to appraise.As nouns the difference between popularity and esteem
is that popularity is the quality or state of being popular; especially, the state of being esteemed by, or of being in favor with, the people at large; good will or favor proceeding from the people; as, the popularity of a law, statesman, or a book while esteem is favourable regard.As a verb esteem is
to set a high value on; to regard with respect or reverence.popularity
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(Webster 1913)Noun
(en-noun)- This gallant laboring to avoid popularity falls into a habit of affectation. — Ben Jonson.
- Popularities , and circumstances which sway the ordinary judgment. — Bacon.
- Indicted for popularity and ambition. — Holland.
- A little time be allowed for the madness of popularity to cease. — Bancroft.
Derived terms
* popularity contestExternal links
* *esteem
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Alternative forms
* (archaic) * esteeme (obsolete)Noun
(-)Derived terms
* self-esteemVerb
(en verb)- Will he esteem thy riches?
- You talk kindlier: we esteem you for it.
- Mary is an esteemed member of the community.
- Then he forsook God, which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.
- Thou shouldst (gentle reader) esteem his censure and authority to be of the more weighty credence.
- Famous men, whose scientific attainments were esteemed hardly less than supernatural.
- And greatly do I respect the solid character, — a blockhead, thou wilt say; yes, but a well- conditioned blockhead, and the best-conditioned, — who esteems all ‘Customs once solemnly acknowledged’ to be ultimate, divine, and the rule for a man to walk by, nothing doubting, not inquiring farther.
- The Earth, which I esteem unable to reflect the rays of the Sun.
