2020 neologisms

drink made with whipped coffee and chilled milk

Online democratic solidarity movement

thumb |Artist's impression of the view of the sky from a planet orbiting inside the dust disk around the supermassive black hole in the center of the galaxy NGC 4261.

thumb|Internet meme portraying a Zoom meeting with an unwanted intrusion Zoombombing or Zoom raiding is the unwanted, disruptive intrusion, generally by Internet trolls, into a video-conference call. In a typical Zoombombing incident, a teleconferencing session is hijacked by the insertion of material that is lewd, obscene, or offensive in nature, typically resulting in the shutdown of the session or the removal of the troll. The term is especially associated with and is derived from, the name of the Zoom videoconferencing software program; however, it has also been used to refer to the phenom

thumb|alt=Jocelyn Bell Burnell|Jocelyn Bell Burnell discovered the first radio pulsar. For this discovery, in 1974 a [[Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to her supervisor Antony Hewish and to Martin Ryle, citing Hewish and Ryle for their pioneering work in radio-astrophysics. Jocelyn Burnell was left out.]]

Twindemic and tripledemic (or tridemic) were terms used during the COVID-19 pandemic, referring to the possibility of a severe flu season happening alongside an increase in cases of COVID-19 during the fall and winter of 2020 and 2021, as well as respiratory syncytial virus in the winter of 2022. A consequence of a twindemic may be a mixture of two different infections in the same person at the same time. The term twindemic is a portmanteau of "twin" and "pandemic". __TOC__

human disease

The anthropause was a global reduction in modern human activity, especially travel, that occurred during the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly in March and April 2020. It was coined by a team of researchers in June 2020 in an article discussing the positive impact of the COVID-19 lockdown on wildlife and environment. The scientific journal that published the commentary, Nature Ecology and Evolution, selected the topic for the cover of its September issue, with the headline "Welcome to the anthropause". Oxford Languages highlighted the word "anthropause" in its 2020 Words of an Unprecedented Year

burnout associated with overuse of virtual platforms

sub-community of QAnon adherents

observed phenomenon in US politics