This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

• Lexulous
• Wordscraper
• Wordosaur

n. Information that concerns a person, group, event, or product and that is disseminated through various media to attract public notice.

n. Public interest, notice, or notoriety achieved by the spreading of such information.

n. The act, process, or occupation of disseminating information to gain public interest.

n. The condition of being public.

n. Advertising or other activity designed to rouse public interest in something.

n. Public interest attracted in this way.

n. The condition of being the object of public attention.

n. The quality or state of being public, or open to the knowledge of a community; notoriety; publicness.

n. The state of being public, or open to the observation or inquiry of a community; notoriety: as, to give publicity to a private communication.

n. the quality of being open to public view

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

"I know full well that expert book reviewers, librarians, and teachers don't get the $$$ that many a publisher and/or book creator does ... and I also know full well that no expert reviewer, librarian, or teacher has the vested self interest in publicity that most book creator/blogger reviewers have -- not that such publicity is as much of a publicity as the bloggers seem to think it it all is."

privacy   

quality   

notoriety    publicness    daylight    limelight    spotlight   

Felicity    analyticity    authenticity    complicity    domesticity    duplicity    eccentricity    elasticity    electricity    ethnicity   

notoriety    scandal    popularity    propaganda    advertise    exposure    coverage    criticism    speculation    controversy