This year’s words of the year show the misery of being online - ANALYSIS: Dictionaries are highlighting words that run from ...

From Glassdoor's "fatigue" to Oxford Dictionary's "rage bait," the words of 2025 is reflecting a sense of exhaustion and ...

Senior Evan Tionquiao said he used to follow the dictionaries’ selections “back when words had meaning, prior to ‘brain rot’ ...

Perhaps the most contentious choice in 2025 was “6-7,” chosen by Dictionary.com. In this case, the controversy has to do with ...

In a move that could trigger fits of fury among readers, Oxford University Press — publisher of the Oxford English Dictionary ...

Last year, OUP named “brain rot” as the Oxford Word of the Year 2024, defined as “the supposed deterioration of a person’s ...

Rage Bait has been named the Oxford University Press’ word of the year for 2025, beating out Aura Farming to the title.

The word ‘captures the zeitgeist of 2025, as the public’s fascination with celebrities and their lifestyles continues to ...

You know that feeling when you read something online and it seems deliberately provocative, almost manufactured to create outrage? You may have just encountered “rage bait” – content deliberately ...

A parasocial relationship is where someone forms a one-sided connection with another person, where the feelings, interactions, sense of connection or intimacy are not reciprocated. If someone is ...

The rise of one-sided parasocial relationships has redefined fandom and celebrity, psychologists have observed. (Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images for The Recording Academy) ...