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gaslighting

The origin and history of gaslighting.

Etymology

From the 1938 stage play "Gas Light" by Patrick Hamilton, and its film adaptations, in which a husband dims the gas lamps and insists his wife is imagining it. The verb "to gaslight" followed, and the noun came into wide general use in the 2010s.

Origin: English

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