🔷 The Cambridge Dictionary word of the year is Parasocial.
💡 Parasocial: involving or relating to a connection that someone feels between themselves and a famous person they do not know, a character in a book, film, TV series, etc., or an artificial intelligence:
➡️ parasocial relationship: Psychologists have long known that people can engage in parasocial relationships with fictional characters.
➡️ parasocial relation: Parasocial relations could bring the same benefits to young people as social relationships.
➡️ parasocial interaction: People who experience parasocial interactions (PSIs) come to consider media personalities, such as movie stars and influencers, as friends, despite having no interactions with them.
➡️ parasocial connection: Toddlers have a tendency to form parasocial connections with characters they encounter in TV shows.
➡️ parasocial grief: Grieving someone you’ve never met is called parasocial grief, and a lot of us are feeling it over the death of the young star.
💡 “The language around parasocial phenomena is evolving fast, as technology, society and culture shift and mutate: from celebrities to chatbots, parasocial trends are fascinating for those who are interested in the development of language.”
💡 Colin McIntosh of the Cambridge Dictionary said: “Parasocial captures the 2025 zeitgeist. It’s a great example of how language changes. What was once a specialist academic term has become mainstream.
💡 “The rise of parasocial relationships has redefined fandom, celebrity and, with AI, how ordinary people interact online.” – Simone Schnall, University of Cambridge
Check out the Oxford word of the year: https://blog.seocopywriting.ro/2025/12/19/the-oxford-word-of-the-year-2025/.
Check out the Economist word of the year: https://blog.seocopywriting.ro/2025/12/09/the-economists-word-of-the-year-2025/.
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