popular opinion

Examples

• All

• We tend to let the market or popular opinion shape our identity.

  Blog text (33)

• The findings contradicted popular opinion that Canadian student-athletes are committed primarily to academics and only marginally to athletics.

  Academic text (2002)

• What is more important to your decision making: popular opinion or research?

  Academic text (2004)

• However, the planning board did not respond to popular opinion, a decision that led to much speculation and some hard feelings.

  Academic text (2010)

• When a nation's government is abusing human rights against popular opinion, then one can no longer claim "cultural differences."

  Academic text (2002)

• Although they are highly visible, NGO activities are not a direct measure of popular opinion.

  Academic text (2002)

• The president also enjoyed a great advantage over Romney in popular opinion polls in Mexico.

  Blog text (1)

• President Clinton fared much better in the court of American popular opinion than he did on Capitol Hill.

  Academic text (2001)

• The King nevertheless bowed to popular opinion and invited Attlee to form a government.

  Blog text (26)

• Popular opinion has it that the communists' claim to leadership can't be upheld much longer.

  Atomic Blonde (2017)

Synonyms

C

consensus

vspopular opinion

309 4.1

Agreement among a group of people about an idea or decision

describes widely held belief even without full group agreement

O

opinion

vspopular opinion

298 1.0

The view that most people in a group have

focuses specifically on beliefs held by the majority of people

P

public opinion

vspopular opinion

168 2.4

The views most people in a society have about an issue

is the simpler term for majority-held beliefs in society

V

vox populi

vspopular opinion

1 8.9

What most people think about something

is the common English expression for majority-held beliefs

P

people's voice

vspopular opinion

1 4.1

What most people think or want about a public issue

refers to majority belief whether expressed or not

How Popular

popular opinion

11 2.9

consensus

309 4.1

minority

754 3.5

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology