'Post-truth' named word of the year by Oxford Dictionaries

November 16, 2016 15:27

In the era of Donald Trump and Brexit, Oxford Dictionaries has declared "post-truth' to be its international word of the year, reports the Guardian.

Defined by the dictionary 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', editors said that use of the term "post-truth' had increased by around 2,000% in 2016 compared to last year.

The spike in usage, it said, is "in the context of the EU referendum in the United Kingdom and the presidential election in the United States'.

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