Parasocial is Cambridge dictionary’s Word of the Year 2025; delulu, slop among new entrants
‘Parasocial’, defined as involving or relating to a connection that someone feels with a famous person they do not know, has been named the Word of the Year for 2025, the Cambridge Dictionary announced on Tuesday (November 18, 2025). Six thousand new words were also added to the dictionary in 2025, including ‘delulu’, ‘slop’, ‘skibidi’…