Parasocial is Cambridge Dictionary's 2025 Word of the Year – Here's why

Parasocial is Cambridge Dictionary's 2025 Word of the Year – Here's why

‘Parasocial' has been named as Cambridge Dictionary's 2025 Word of the Year.

This reflects the surge in one-sided emotional relationships people formed with celebrities, influencers, and increasingly, AI chatbots.

The term gained renewed relevance through fan culture (Taylor Swift, viral TV finales) and the emergence of AI bots like ChatGPT as objects of attachment. New entrants to the Cambridge Dictionary also included ‘skibidi', ‘delulu', and ‘tradwife'.

Source: LiveMint
Related Posts: Parasocial is Cambridge dictionary’s Word of the Year 2025 Skibidi’, ‘tradwife’ among 6,000 new words added to Cambridge Dictionary What once scared engineers is now Collins Dictionary’s ‘Word of the Year’ Trump shares his ‘favourite word in the dictionary’ I'm caught in a trademark row with Cambridge University – it's terrifying AstraZeneca pauses £200m Cambridge investment Why restitution is a better word than repatriation for the return of looted artifacts Suryakumar Yadav’s Cheeky 6-Word Dig At Oxford's Word of the Year 2025 candidates include Gen Alpha term ‘aura farming’ NFL analyst Marcus Spears makes massive 3-word MVP prediction for Dak Prescott