Oxford University Press narrowed a list down to six words and the world had the opportunity to vote for its top choice.

Many of us have felt it, and now it's official: ''brain rot'' is the Oxford dictionaries' word of the year. Oxford University ...

There’s a name for that feeling you get after spending too long scrolling aimlessly, and Oxford University Press (OUP) has ...

See what other terms made the Oxford University Press shortlist and what other publications chose as their word of 2024.

According to Oxford University Press, which publishes the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), the term ‘brain rot’ is defined as ...

A slang term for supposed mental damage done by overconsumption of trivial online content triumphed over a shortlist that ...

But the word has its origins in Plato, who described people skilled in fanning the emotions of the crowd at a theatre into a ...

There’s a word for the feeling you get after endlessly scrolling on social media — and Oxford chose it as their word of the ...

Oxford Languages has declared ‘brain rot’ as the Oxford Word of the Year for 2024, reflecting the evolving concerns ...

With excessive, low-quality social media content at an all-time high, intellectual deterioration seemed to find everyone this ...