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/Sounds like "gahs" (as in "garden") + "LEEGHT" (as in "lead")/

Meaning

To manipulate someone into doubting their own reality, memory, or perception. A psychology anglicism that went mainstream on social media.

Examples

He's gaslighting me, he says he never said that when I heard it.

It's pure gaslighting, they make you think you're the problem.

Regional synonyms

A scatterbrained or impulsive person who acts without thinking and consistently makes a mess of things through pure recklessness. In Colombia and Venezuela, the atolondrado is always rushing but somehow always the last to arrive, with everything upside down and no idea what went wrong.