Parasocial

Quick meaning: Parasocial is an adjective meaning One-sided (especially of a relationship, as for example that between a celebrity and their audience or fans, whom they do not know).

Meaning

One-sided (especially of a relationship, as for example that between a celebrity and their audience or fans, whom they do not know).

Example Sentences

a parasocial relationship

With the advent of AI chatbots, the ethics of parasocial relationships just keep getting murkier. Introducing: CarynAI, a voice-based chatbot that was trained to mimic a human influencer to become your artificial girlfriend.

In the past, parasocial relationships occurred predominantly with television or film celebrities, but now these […] celebrities openly share their opinions and activities through various social media outlets such as Twitter and Facebook.

Donald Horton and R. Richard Wohl coined the term parasocial interaction in 1956 to describe the imaginary interactions between the audience and TV variety show hosts, noting the “seeming face-to-face relationship” that viewers developed […]

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include intrafandom, extrasocial, offstage, interperson, peripersonal, interpersonal.

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