Dictionary is an electronic resource or book which contains lists of words placed in an alphabetical manner with their meaning. It not just provide meanings but pronunciation, usage and origin also.
As, the world has changed since past few months, people are adapting “new normal”. Similarly their have been new words that have recently come up as time is changing and evolving.
So, 11 new words added to dictionary.com in 2020. Below are the new words added in the list.
1.Coronacation
Meaning- Coronavirus-compelled staycations, due to canceled classes, shifts, and the like. It’s usually an ironic term—just ask parents working from home while teaching their kids.
2. Dead white male
Meaning- noun Slang: Disparaging.
(sometimes initial capital letters). One of a group of white male writers, scientists, or other historical figures whose works have traditionally dominated the field or been a disproportionate part of the school curriculum in the West:
to expand the literary canon of dead white males to include important works by women.
Abbreviation: DWM
3. Community management
Meaning- noun
The work of recruiting, nurturing, and growing a community online, as for a website or video game, to improve engagement and retention of users or subscribers.
4. Quoisexual
Meaning- 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. It can also refer to someone who feels confusion about their own feelings of sexual attraction and orientation.
5. Ecoanxiety
Meaning- noun Psychiatry.
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:
6. Germaphobe
Meaning- noun
A person who has an irrational or disproportionate fear of germs and contamination.
7. Bombogenesis
Meaning- noun Meteorology.
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
8.Emotional support animal
Meaning- noun
An animal that provides a therapeutic benefit to a person diagnosed with a psychological disorder, as anxiety, depression, or PTSD, and that is allowed to accompany the person in certain public places where pets are not allowed, as the cabin of an airplane. Abbreviation: ESA
9. Viral load
Meaning- noun Pathology.
The amount or concentration of a virus in a given quantity of blood, saliva, mucus, or other bodily fluid, often expressed as the number of viral particles per milliliter of the fluid
10. Techlash
Meaning- noun
A strong negative reaction or backlash against the largest technology companies, or their employees or products
11. Jabroni
Meaning- noun
Slang. a stupid, foolish, or contemptible person; loser.
