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Meaning ‘dream’ or ‘willing something into existence,’ it beat out ‘brat’ and ‘demure’ after a surge of celebrity-inspired popularity on social media. Clearly, 2024 was all about positive thinking.
‘Manifest’ has been named word of the year by Cambridge Dictionary.
Though it’s more than six centuries old, it’s been given new life on social media as of late, thanks to a slew of celebrities who’ve been using it to describe how they’ve channelled their dreams into successes.
For Simone Biles, it was responsible for her triumphant participation in the Paris Olympics.
‘You have to write it down, you have to speak it into existence, you have to see it daily and then it usually happens,’ she said.
For Dua Lipa, it’s attributable to why she was chosen to headline Glastonbury back in June.
‘I’ve probably thought about it every single session that I’m in the studio, because when I write a song I think I go ‘oh what’s this going to sound like at Glastonbury?,’ she told the Zach Sang Show in an interview. ‘That in a way is setting that idea, that intention in the back of my mind. I think it’s powerful.’
As a verb, ‘manifesting’ means to use methods such as visualisation or affirmation to ‘help you imagine achieving something you want, in the belief that doing so will make it more likely to happen.’
Until recently, it was relatively exclusive to the self-help community.
