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2022

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Gaslighting became the word of which year?
A
2023
B
2024
C
2022
D
2021
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -A colloquialism, the term derives from the title of the 1944 American film Gaslight, which was based on the 1938 British theatre play Gas Light by Patrick Hamilton, though the term did not gain popular currency in English until the mid-2010s.

Detailed explanation-2: -What Is Gaslighting? The term is derived from the title of a 1938 British stage play, Gas Light, which was subsequently produced as a film, Gaslight, in the United Kingdom (1940) and the United States (1944). Those dramas vividly, if somewhat simplistically, depicted some of the basic elements of the technique.

Detailed explanation-3: -’Gaslighting’, a term that has been searched online more and more, has now been picked as the ‘word of the year’ by America’s oldest dictionary publisher, Merriam-Webster. Searches on its website for the word have spiked by 1,740 per cent in 2022, according to the company.

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