Dictionary.com adds ‘goated,’ ‘love bomb’ and nearly 6,000 more words

Nearly 6,000 "new" words have been added to Dictionary.com this summer, and some may surprise you.

On Sept. 12, Dictionary.com announced that 5,900 new words were added to its website, along with more than 1,200 revisions to existing entries. Online slang, artificial intelligence developments, sustainability, global cuisine and health and psychology are all captured in the update, according to Dictionary.com's news release.

Most of the added words fall under science, including terms about biology, physics, medicine, earth science, chemistry, computing, math and psychology.

Interested in what words Dictionary.com added to its catalog this summer? Take a look.

Here's a closer look at some of the new words added to Dictionary.com, by category.

Dictionary.com didn't just add words this year; take a look at some of the new acronyms.

Dictionary.com adds words to its catalog because they are "already being used by a lot of people in the same way and show evidence that they’re likely to stick around," a Dictionary.com news release states. A new entry doesn't mean the creation of a new word.

"Kiki," which Dictionary.com defines as a "gathering of close friends, especially to share the latest gossip," is a good example. While the word may sound like…

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