We are about to bid farewell to 2022 because many “Word of the Year” from various dictionary titles are now starting to pop up. Among the first ones to drop is Merriam-Webster.
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And guess what? Its word of the year is none other than “Gaslighting.” According to the publication, this year, they saw a 1,740 percent increase in lookups of the word. Pretty high, isn’t it?gaslightingsays. “Its origins are colorful: the term comes from the title of a 1938 play and the movie based on that play, the plot of which involves a man attempting to make his wife believe that she is going insane.
It is also reported that gaslighting was first used in the mid-20th century, referring to a kind of deception.refer also to something simpler and broader: ‘the act or practice of grossly misleading someone, especially for a personal advantage.’ In this use, the word is at home with other terms relating to modern forms of deception and manipulation, such as
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