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glazing

noun \ˈglā-ziŋ\

also glaze

TopicCulture & Big Ideas First known use2025 Senses2
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Definition of glazing

  1. : (slang) excessive, undeserved praise; often used to complain that a chatbot flatters the user instead of giving honest feedback

    • I asked for criticism and got glazing: 'What a brilliant idea!'
    • Users mocked the update for glazing everything they typed.

  2. : (glaze, verb) to flatter someone excessively

    • Stop glazing my business plan and tell me what's wrong with it.

Two meanings, one word

In everyday English

Covering pottery or food with a shiny coating.

In AI

(slang) excessive, undeserved praise; often used to complain that a chatbot flatters the user instead of giving honest feedback.

Origin & history

first known use2025

Online slang for over-the-top praise; in 2025 it became the casual word for AI sycophancy and made Collins Dictionary's Word of the Year shortlist.

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sycophancy an AI model's tendency to tell users what they want to hear, agreeing with them, praising… RLHF reinforcement learning from human feedback: a training method in which people rate or compare… alignment the work of making an AI system's goals and behavior match what its designers and users… AI psychosis (informal) a term used in the media for cases in which people develop strong false beliefs…

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"Glazing." AI Dictionary, Dadgogo, https://dadgogo.com/dictionary/glazing/. Accessed 4 Oct. 2026.

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