Every year, the internet waits to see which word captures the cultural moment, but 2025 delivered a term that perfectly sums up our hyper-online lives. While the internet flooded timelines with quirky guesses, from “Labubu” to “Skibidi,” Cambridge Dictionary settled on a word that reflects a deeper truth about how we connect today.

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Meet the word of the year for 2025: Parasocial

Cambridge Dictionary crowned ‘Parasocial’ as the 2025 Word of the Year, defining it as a one-sided emotional bond someone forms with a public figure or personality they don’t actually know. The rise of fandoms, influencer culture, and even emotional attachments to AI bots pushed this term into mainstream conversation.

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