publicity Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a message issued in behalf of some product or cause or idea or person or institution
    promotional material; packaging; promotion.
    • the packaging of new ideas
  2. noun the quality of being open to public view
    • the publicity of the court room

WordNet

Pub*lic"i*ty noun
Etymology
Cf. F. publicité.
Definitions
  1. The quality or state of being public, or open to the knowledge of a community; notoriety; publicness.

Webster 1913