Word of the Year 2024

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Word of the Year 2024
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Various dictionaries have announced their words of the year for 2024, reflecting prevalent trends and conversations. Oxford chose 'brain rot', Merriam-Webster selected 'polarization', Dictionary.com highlighted 'demure', Cambridge Dictionary picked 'manifesting', and Collins Dictionary went with 'hedonistic'.

While the origins of this holiday are unknown, many celebrate it with crosswords and other word puzzles. Oxford’s choice following two weeks of public voting.

Brain rot is defined as “the supposed deterioration of a person’s mental or intellectual state, especially viewed as the result of overconsumption of material considered to be trivial or unchallenging. Also: something characterized as likely to lead to such deterioration.

It said the word demure “experienced a meteoric rise in usage” in 2024, mainly attributed to TikToker Jools Lebron’s viral phrase “very demure, very mindful.” Cambridge Dictionary chose this word which is now popularly used to mean “to imagine achieving something you want, in the belief doing so will make it more likely to happen”. Defined in 2024 as “characterized by a confident, independent, and hedonistic attitude,” it was chosen by Collins’ Dictionary as its word of the year.

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