Korean slang profile
가스라이팅
gaseuraiting
Psychological manipulation that makes someone doubt their own judgment or memory and trust themselves less, increasing the manipulator’s control.
Psychological manipulation that makes someone doubt their own judgment or memory and trust themselves less, increasing the manipulator’s control.
- Expanded form
- Not documented
- Other spellings
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- Earliest source found
- Dec 30, 2021
- Documented trend period
- Not verified
This is the earliest source we have verified, not the date the term was coined.
01Examples, with English translations
- Example by Julimmal
그 소설은 인물이 가스라이팅을 알아차리는 과정을 그렸어.
The novel depicted a character gradually recognizing gaslighting.
02Documented history
- December 2021쿠키뉴스 explained it as psychological manipulation in a year-end review of dictionary searches.[1]
03Origin & word formation
쿠키뉴스 explains it as manipulating another person’s psychology or circumstances so they doubt themselves, strengthening control over them. The article does not explain how the word developed, so its etymology and first use could not be established.
Evidence for the origin explanationLow
The meaning was checked, but the current evidence includes no source explaining the etymology.
04Sources
Original titles and links are preserved. An English translation does not replace the original source.
- 2021년 가장 많이 찾은 단어는 가스라이팅 (쿠키뉴스)Published Dec 30, 2021Original source checked Nov 13, 2026