populace, public, world (noun)

people in general considered as a whole

"he is a hero in the eyes of the public"

public (adj)

a body of people sharing some common interest

"the reading public"

public (adj)

not private; open to or concerning the people as a whole

"the public good"; "public libraries"; "public funds"; "public parks"; "a public scandal"; "public gardens"; "performers and members of royal families are public figures"

public (adj)

affecting the people or community as a whole

"community leaders"; "community interests"; "the public welfare"

public (Noun)

The people in general, regardless of membership of any particular group.

public (Adjective)

Able to be seen or known by everyone; open to general view, happening without concealment.

public (Adjective)

Pertaining to all the people as a whole (as opposed a private group); concerning the whole country, community etc.

public (Adjective)

Officially representing the community; carried out or funded by the state on behalf of the community.

public (Adjective)

Open to all members of a community; especially, provided by national or local authorities and supported by money from taxes.

public (Adjective)

Traded publicly via a stock market.

Public

In public relations and communication science, publics are groups of individual people, and the public is the totality of such groupings. This is a different concept to the sociological concept of the Öffentlichkeit or public sphere. The concept of a public has also been defined in political science, psychology, marketing, and advertising. In public relations and communication science, it is one of the more ambiguous concepts in the field. Although it has definitions in the theory of the field that have been formulated from the early 20th century onwards, it has suffered in more recent years from being blurred, as a result of conflation of the idea of a public with the notions of audience, market segment, community, constituency, and stakeholder. The name "public" originates with the Latin "populus" or "poplicus", and in general denotes some mass population in association with some matter of common interest. So in political science and history, a public is a population of individuals in association with civic affairs, or affairs of office or state. In social psychology, marketing, and public relations, a public has a more situational definition. John Dewey defined a public as a group of people who, in facing a similar problem, recognize it and organize themselves to address it. Dewey's definition of a public is thus situational: people organized about a situation. Built upon this situational definition of a public is the situational theory of publics by James E. Grunig, which talks of nonpublics, latent publics, aware publics, and active publics.

Public

In public relations and communication science, publics are groups of individual people, and the public (a.k.a. the general public) is the totality of such groupings. This is a different concept to the sociological concept of the Öffentlichkeit or public sphere. The concept of a public has also been defined in political science, psychology, marketing, and advertising. In public relations and communication science, it is one of the more ambiguous concepts in the field. Although it has definitions in the theory of the field that have been formulated from the early 20th century onwards, and suffered more recent years from being blurred, as a result of conflation of the idea of a public with the notions of audience, market segment, community, constituency, and stakeholder.https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cn_xdtIjrrQ/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=