Dictionary.com Has Added New Words And We Relate Most With Cornacation
The English language has almost as many as 273,000 headwords in its collection, some of which are currently being used, while many others deemed obsolete with the changing times. And yet somehow, we find ourselves coining new words, sometimes to express an emotion that is current but wasn’t historically so. For example, while the word ‘pandemic’ might have existed, we only truly know the weight of it in this year and we have found many a way to expression our frustration in this situation. Of course, we don’t want to be encumbered by the lack of a word to perhaps say, ‘so fucking annoyingly frustrating’ and so the internet coins slang on the daily that becomes something we use. Or words that change meanings, like lit. Which for a very long time would have meant something that was on fire but has not come to mean awesome or amazing. Unless someone spontaneously combusts, in which case, lit could be used literally.
Although it may seem that this year has already introduced us to a bunch of words that has now become a part of our lingo. Like say ‘quarantine’, or ‘isolation’. These existed but it seems like there has been an inclusion of a bunch of new words to the online website dictionary.com with their latest list reminding of just how much things have changed in this one year. Clearly 2020 is leaving its mark everywhere, even in our word bibles.
Among the ones that are added, the list includes words like, ‘coronacation’, ‘Dead white male’, ‘community management’, ‘Quoisexual’, ‘Ecoanxiety’, ‘Bombogensis’, ’emotional support animal’ , techlash’, ‘jabroni’ and ‘Germophobe’.
Ecoanxiety… techlash… and zhuzh will also find their way into my future stories https://t.co/h8dasAWdSL
— Alex McLoon KETV (@AlexMcLoon) September 2, 2020
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Quoisexual is a sexual orientation on the asexuality spectrum. It's also today's #Pride word. https://t.co/tRA1yrvkw1
— Dictionary.com (@Dictionarycom) June 23, 2019
While words like ‘Coronacation’ – corona compelled vacations, and ‘Emotional support animal’ – an animal that provides therapeutic relief to people suffering from psychological disorder, as anxiety, depression, or PTSD, are pretty straightforward and easy to understand, it were words like Techlash, Jabroni, Quoisexual that had us racking our brains for their meanings.
Turns out, Quoisexual is a sexual orientation on the asexuality spectrum. It can refer to a person who doesn’t relate to or understand experiences or concepts of sexual attraction and orientation. Where as Ecoanxiety refers to the anxiety caused by a dread of environmental perils, especially climate change, and a feeling of helplessness over the potential consequences for those living now and even more so for those of later generations. Basically the most appropriate word for our current hyper ventilation and existential crisis.
https://t.co/1VVAbhm7JX added 650 new entries today, including… “jabroni” pic.twitter.com/sWm3qZc5Zu
— SI Wrestling (@SI_wrestling) September 1, 2020
Bombogenesis on the other hand is known as the process that occurs during a 24-hour period when the atmospheric pressure of an extratropical cyclone drops with enough intensity to produce explosive cyclogenesis. Something we’d rather only read the meaning of and not experience first hand, of course.
Circling back to the more relatable words, Techlash means a strong negative reaction or backlash against the largest technology companies, or their employees or products. *cough* Chinese companies *cough*
And last but not the least (or maybe, considering the meaning of this next word), Jabroni is a slang used for a stupid, foolish, or contemptible person. A.k.a a total loser, which we hope we aren’t by the end of this year!
