{"id":1754125,"date":"2022-11-28T16:38:35","date_gmt":"2022-11-28T21:38:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1754125"},"modified":"2022-11-28T16:38:42","modified_gmt":"2022-11-28T21:38:42","slug":"merriam-websters-2022-word-of-the-year-is-gaslighting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/merriam-websters-2022-word-of-the-year-is-gaslighting\/","title":{"rendered":"Merriam-Webster\u2019s 2022 Word Of The Year Is \u2018Gaslighting\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmerriam-websters-2022-word-of-the-year-is-gaslighting%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1754125&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"p1\">Merriam-Webster dictionary publishing company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2022\/11\/28\/1139384432\/its-no-trick-merriam-webster-says-gaslighting-is-the-word-of-the-year\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced<\/a> that its word of the year for 2022 is \u201cgaslighting.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/gaslighting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">defines<\/a> \u201cgaslighting\u201d as \u201cpsychological manipulation of a person usually over an extended period of time that causes the victim to question the validity of their own thoughts, perception of reality, or memories and typically leads to confusion, loss of confidence and self-esteem, uncertainty of one\u2019s emotional or mental stability, and a dependency on the perpetrator.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">A second definition is provided as \u201cthe act or practice of grossly misleading someone especially for one\u2019s own advantage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Merriam-Webster <a href=\"https:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/words-at-play\/word-of-the-year\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> that the word was looked up 1,740% more this year and there was a lot of interest over the course of the year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The word is derived from the title of a play from 1938 and two films that were based off of the same drama where a man tries to make his wife think that she is becoming insane as she notices the gas lights of the house growing fainter. He tells her that the lights are not fading, but rather that she is unable to trust what she is seeing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">In the modern age, the term has become more political in use, specifically regarding social issues. The use of \u201cgaslighting\u201d can at times be used in place of argument or debate, as some people will instead push their own agenda by trying to convince others that what they are witnessing taking place is not happening or is unimportant.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Merriam-Webster pointed out that \u201cgaslighting\u201d is different from either outright lying or committing fraud, which either take place between individual persons or with regards to organizations. Gaslighting, instead, can happen in a political form or through personal conduct.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cIt\u2019s a word that has risen so quickly in the English language, and especially in the last four years, that it actually came as a surprise to me and to many of us,\u201d Peter Sokolowski, Merriam-Webster\u2019s editor at large, <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/word-of-the-year-2022-80d02a3e0a347e542466571ca9cdb2ef\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> in an interview with The Associated Press. \u201cIt was a word looked up frequently every single day of the year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cThere is this implication of an intentional deception,\u201d Sokolowski said. \u201cAnd once one is aware of that deception, it\u2019s not just a straightforward lie, as in, you know, I didn\u2019t eat the cookies in the cookie jar. It\u2019s something that has a little bit more devious quality to it. It has possibly an idea of strategy or a long-term plan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The other top ten words of the year were \u201coligarch,\u201d \u201comicron,\u201d \u201ccodify,\u201d \u201cQueen consort,\u201d \u201craid,\u201d \u201csentient,\u201d \u201ccancel culture,\u201d \u201cLGBTQIA,\u201d and \u201cloamy.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Merriam-Webster dictionary publishing company announced that its word of the year for 2022 is \u201cgaslighting.\u201d\u00a0 The company defines \u201cgaslighting\u201d as \u201cpsychological manipulation of a person usually over an extended period of time that causes the victim to question the validity of their own thoughts, perception of reality, or memories and typically leads to confusion, loss &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":95,"featured_media":1754128,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1754125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1754125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/95"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1754125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1754125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1754128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1754125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1754125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1754125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}