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gas lighting

gas lighting is the alternative form of gaslighting.

Meaning of gaslighting

Noun

gaslighting (usually uncountable, plural gaslightings)

  1. (usually) Illumination by burning gas.
    • This is a general article summarizing progress in incandescent gaslighting since the days of the flat flame burner.December, 1909, J. S. Dow, “Pressgasbeleuchtung, by R. Bremer”, in The Illuminating Engineer, volume IV, number 10, page 520
  2. (figuratively, usually) Manipulation intended to trick the victim(s) into doubting their perception of reality.
    • In the Disney movie, Oz, the Great and Powerful, Oz's gaslighting schemes showcase his extreme case of Narcissistic Personality Disorder.2013, Victoria Summit, Stop Dancing in the Gaslight: Recognizing Domestic Abuse is Half the Battle, Scarlett Publishing, page 14

Forms of gas lighting

pluralgas lightings

Questions about gas lighting

What is gas lighting the alternative form of?
Gas lighting is the alternative form of gaslighting.

Words near gas lighting in the dictionary

  1. gas law
  2. gas laws
  3. gas light
  4. gas lighter
  5. gas lighters
  6. gas lighting
  7. gas lightings
  8. gas lights
  9. gas line
  10. gas lines
  11. gas main

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Adapted from Wiktionary: gas lighting (page history and authors); gaslighting (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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