popular opinion

Noun

Meaning

a belief or sentiment shared by most people; the voice of the people

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

public opinion vox populi opinion consensus reality popular belief general opinion public sentiment popular view mainstream opinion prevailing view prevalent belief universal opinion accepted belief accepted opinion attitude of society
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Antonyms

individual opinion individual viewpoint uncommon opinion individual attitude individual point of view personal attitude
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Hypernyms

belief

Examples

And it is long since I have learned to hold popular opinion of no value. Alexander Hamilton

Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion. Jack Kerouac

Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world. Thomas Carlyle

I don't hold myself dictated to by what everyone is saying, by the tabloids or popular opinion. I don't like bourgeois values. I say you find your own way to live. James Salter

Worship of society and popular opinion is idolatry. The soul has no sex, no country, no place, no time. Swami Vivekananda

In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a family character, as it were, to the century. Mary Wollstonecraft

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popular music genre popular name popular officer popular passage popular person popular phobia