If you feel like Taylor Swift is your friend despite the fact that you've never met her, then the Cambridge Dictionary's word of the year is for you.
The Taylor/Travis moment helped drive spikes in lookups for "parasocial" on the Cambridge Dictionary website, which led to it being crowned word of the year.
Colin McIntosh, of the Cambridge Dictionary, said, "Parasocial captures the 2025 zeitgeist. It's a great example of how language changes. What was once a specialist academic term has become mainstream."