“post-truth” – Word of the year 2016

found on https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/word-of-the-year/word-of-the-year-2016

The Oxford Dictionary has defined POST-TRUTH as

“relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief”.

The concept of post-truth has been spiking in frequency in 2016 in the context of the Brexit referendum in the UK and the presidential election in the US, and becoming associated overwhelmingly with a particular noun, in the phrase post-truth politics.