Oxford dictionaries' 'Word of the year' perfectly sums up 2016
- 7 years ago
In a year that's seen Brexit and Donald Trump's election to the most powerful office in the world, Oxford Dictionaries has chosen "post-truth" as its international word of the year.
It defined the term as an adjective “relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief”.
Oxford Dictionaries' editors said use of the term increased by 2,000 per cent in 2016 compared to last year.
It defined the term as an adjective “relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief”.
Oxford Dictionaries' editors said use of the term increased by 2,000 per cent in 2016 compared to last year.