'Post-Truth' is Word of 2016 Thanks to Trump and Brexit
Other contenders included “alt-right,” “glass cliff” and “woke.”
The election of Donald Trump and the U.K.’s decision to leave the European Union have propelled “post-truth” to the status of international “Word of the Year,” Oxford Dictionaries announced Tuesday.
In 2016, the adjective has become particularly associated with the denoting “circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief,” .
