insert_link World Cambridge Dictionary names ‘parasocial’ as 2025 Word of the Year Photo credit: Cambridge University Press & Assessment Cambridge Dictionary has selected “parasocial” as its Word of the Year for 2025, highlighting growing global concern over one-sided emotional attachments formed with celebrities, influencers, and increasingly, artificial intelligence. The term describes a relationship in which a person feels a personal bond with someone they have never met, whether a public figure, fictional character, or AI system. Cambridge defines it as a connection […] today19 November, 2025
insert_link Entertainment Cambridge Dictionary chooses “Manifest” as 2024’s Word of the Year The word "manifest" has been picked as Cambridge Dictionary's word of the year for 2024. The term has gained traction on social media and was looked up almost 130-thousand times on the Cambridge Dictionary website this year. Lexicographers say the term, to manifest, has evolved to mean to imagine achieving something you want, believing that doing so will make it more likely to happen. Last year's word was "hallucinate". today21 November, 2024