Kolkata, Feb. 14 -- From 'situationship' to 'cushioning', a stream of new dating expressions has entered the everyday conversation of today's young generation - the GenZ - mirroring how romance is increasingly shaped by digital culture.
While 'situationship' denotes a relationship without clear labels or commitment, cushioning is a short-term for dating a lot of people simultaneously. Similarly, 'ghosting' has nothing to do with any apparition, but is actually the GenZ lingo to describe the act of suddenly ending all communication and contact without a proper closure.
Then again, there is the word 'breadcrumbing', referring to the act of giving a person enough to keep them interested but never to actually commit. Another popular term is '...