Popularity's the quality of being well-liked or common. Popularity figures are an important part of many people's personal value systems, and forms a vital component of success in people-oriented fields such as politics. Borrowed from the Latin popularis in 1490, originally meant common or "belonging to the people." The use of the word popular to mean the "fact or condition of being beloved by the people"'s seen originally 1601. Many different variations of popularity exist, and many ways in… (More on Popularity)