In a year that's seen Brexit and Donald Trump's election to the most powerful office in the world, Oxford Dictionaries has chosen "post-truth" as its international word of the year.<br />It defined the term as an adjective “relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief”.<br />Oxford Dictionaries' editors said use of the term increased by 2,000 per cent in 2016 compared to last year.
