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accord to Oxford University Press , which publish the Oxford English Dictionary ( OED ) , the condition “ mentality rot ” is defined as the “ supposed deterioration of a person ’s mental or rational state ” as it relate to overdosing on online content without much of a narrative — like TikTok video recording .
Brain bunk is also the rig ’s word of the year in 2024 , give its hike in popular refinement this twelvemonth . Asexplainsthe New York Times , the organization scour a principal of “ some 26 billion countersign ” from news sources across the English - utter cosmos to identify the “ moods and conversations that have determine 2024 . ”
take note that “ brain hogwash ” does n’t appear in the OED . Neither does “ rizz ” or “ goblin style , ” which succeed as word of the year in 2023 and 2022 , respectively . Seemingly , despite their recognition by the Oxford University Press ( the publishing house of the University of Oxford ) , they have n’t yet shown thesustained and far-flung usagethat OED editors require to see first .
They may have a long wait . Among the OED ’s newest additions is “ tech - savvy , ” whose earliest known use was in the 1980s .
