Editor's Corner

Good day to you! Today I bequeath you the last installment of new words added to the dictionary for 2023. In my last two posts, I shared the following categories of words:

· Pop Culture and Slang and Artificial Intelligence

· Modern Problems and Science and Tech

For those of you feeling a little disconcerted because some of the words I previously shared have been added, maybe it will make you feel better if you think about words you used in your adolescence that drove your parents crazy. Some of those words may have made it into the dictionary too, and aren’t you glad they did?

· From the 1950s: brainwashing, fast food, UFO, moisturizer

· From the 1960s: junk food, fanny pack, repurpose, head-trip

· From the 1970s: granola, dorky, fintech, transgender

· From the 1980s: voice mail, comb-over, yuppie, emo

· From the 1990s: man cave, buzzkill, snark, website, emoji

· From the 2000s: binge-watch, unfriend, rogue, staycation

· From the 2010s: mansplain, deadname, hashtag, glamping

This time, I’m going to share some of the new words from the following categories: Health and Wellness and Identity and Relationships.

Health and Wellness

· decision fatigue (noun)

Mental and emotional exhaustion resulting from excessive or relentless decision-making, especially the cumulative effect of small decisions that one makes throughout each day.

· doctor shop (verb)

To obtain prescriptions for a controlled substance from more than one healthcare practitioner at a time.

· coffee nap (noun)

A short nap, usually 15–30 minutes, taken immediately after drinking a cup of coffee, the claimed benefit being that the energizing effect of caffeine may be bolstered by a sleeping body’s drop in adenosine levels.

· sleep debt (noun)

The difference between the amount of sleep a person needs and the actual amount of time spent sleeping, when the amount needed exceeds the time slept.

· stress eating (noun)

Emotional eating, especially in response to stress, tension, or anxiety.

· intermittent fasting (noun)

A pattern of eating that involves regular short periods of fasting, such as by limiting food intake to a certain period of the day or to fewer meals on certain days of the week.

Identity and Relationships [dbb – There were a lot of these; to see the full list go to
Dictionary.com.]

· grandfamily (noun)

A family in which one or more children live with and are raised by their grandparent or grandparents.

· kinkeeping (noun)

The labor involved in maintaining and enhancing family ties, including organizing social occasions, remembering birthdays, sending gifts, etc.

· diverse-owned (adjective)

A business owned by someone who is part of a group historically underrepresented in entrepreneurship, such as women, ethnic or racial minorities, LGBTQ+ people, etc.

· box braids (noun)

A hairstyle originating among Black people, in which the hair is parted into small squares or other shapes over the scalp and the hair from each section is woven into a braid.

· CODA (abbreviation, noun)

Child of deaf adult/adults: a hearing person with a deaf parent or parents.

· gay marry (verb)

To marry a person of the same gender.

· amalgagender (adjective)

Noting or relating to a person whose gender identity is linked to or impacted by the fact that they are intersex.

· stealth (adjective)

(of a transgender person) Living as a cisgender member of one’s identified gender, without revealing that one is transgender.

· autoromantic (adjective)

Noting or relating to a person who primarily feels romantic attraction to and desire for themselves, as opposed to other people.

Enjoy the day today!

Donna Bradley Burcher |Technical Editor, Advisory | jack henry™

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