Xenophobia: Dictionary dot com word of the year 2016

Q.  Website dictionary.com has named which word as one for the year 2016?
- Published on 30 Nov 16

a. Xenophobia
b. Arachnophobia
c. Technophobia
d. None of the above

ANSWER: Xenophobia
 
The website Dictionary dot com has named Xenophobia as the word of the year for 2016.
  • There was a massive surge in lookups for Xenophobia that is larger than any of the peaks seen in 2016.
  • The rise in lookups was connected to attacks on foreign workers and overall rising xenophobia in South Africa.
  • Largest spike in Dictionary dot com’s data of the word was June 2016.
  • The word Xenophobia has Greek roots. The word can be broken down to ”Xenos” which means stranger and “phobos” meaning fear.
  • Earlier this year in Nov 2016, the word “Post Truth” was named as word of the year by Oxford Dictionaries in 2016

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