A message or signal that tells you something has happened or needs your attention. It can be written, spoken, or shown on a device screen.
From Latin “notificatio,” from “notificare,” meaning “to make known,” from “notus” (known) + “facere” (to make). It came into English through French and legal language.
Phone and app notifications have turned a formal word into something we experience dozens of times a day. The original idea was simply “making something known”—now it’s a whole attention economy fighting to be noticed.
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