What 가스라이팅 means
Making someone doubt their own memory, feelings and judgment in order to control them. Also called 심리적 지배, “psychological domination.”
Origin
From Patrick Hamilton's 1938 British play Gas Light and the 1944 American film Gaslight, in which a husband insists his wife is imagining the dimming gas lamps.
Numbers
Merriam-Webster named it 2022's word of the year after lookups rose 1,740% over the year before (AP).
Careful
Experts look for a repeated pattern, not a single argument. It isn't the same as nagging or advice.
Word history
Community definitions (2)
Manipulating someone by denying and twisting their memory and judgment until they doubt themselves, as a way of controlling them. From the 1944 film Gaslight.
상대의 기억과 판단을 교묘하게 부정하고 비틀어, 스스로를 의심하게 만들고 심리적으로 지배하는 행위를 이르는 말이다. 1944년 영화 '가스등'에서 유래했다.
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