"2025's words of the year reflect a generation frustrated with job prospects, AI, and online culture. Platforms have chosen terms like "fatigue," "AI slop," and "rage bait." For the first time, Dictionary.com chose a word that is also a number as its Word of the Year. Everyone is over 2025. Various platforms and dictionaries released their word of the year in December, and the choices widely reflect a sense of inescapable uncertainty, exhaustion, and skepticism of the tech world."
"The site that allows workers to post reviews of companies they have worked for or interviewed with coined "fatigue" as its word of the year, after the term saw a 41% spike in mentions across the platform in 2025. Glassdoor cited how job seekers are growing increasingly frustrated with endless applications that go nowhere, and how emotionally exhausted workers are with the rapid rise of AI."
Multiple platforms and dictionaries selected words that signal pervasive uncertainty, exhaustion, and skepticism about technology and labor in 2025. Oxford Languages noted 2025 as a year defined by questions of identity both online and offline. Glassdoor named 'fatigue' after a 41% spike in mentions and reported 78% of professionals found the news cycle draining their work energy; the platform linked frustration to endless applications, the rise of AI, and 'job huggers' holding positions in a low-hire, low-fire market. Other entries included terms like 'AI slop,' 'rage bait,' and specialized phrases such as 'vibe coding.'
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