_transitive verb_
to blame your fart on someone else, attempting to make them question whether it really was them who farted... and their sanity.
Innocent: "What's that smell?"
Gaslighter: "I don't know, I guess you farted."
Innocent: "Don't gaslight me! It was you!"
Gaslighter: "Poor dear, you must be tired... you don't even know. The bathroom's just upstairs if you need it. I don't mind."
_transitive verb_
to blame your fart on someone else, attempting to make them question whether it really was them who farted... and their sanity.
Innocent: "What's that smell?"
Gaslighter: "I don't know, I guess you farted." Innocent: "Don't gaslight me! It was you!"
Gaslighter: "Poor dear, you must be tired... you don't even know. The bathroom's just upstairs if you need it. I don't mind."
This is when a person tells you what qualities you have, personality traits, etc. It can also be applied when someone's talking to someone else. It's even more harmful if the thing that's being said is simply untrue, and the person doing it has no idea what the person likes or enjoys.
Person: "I wanted to go skiing with your brother, but I don't know if he enjoys it"
Qualitative Gaslighter: "He loves skiing, I'll go and tell him to go with you"
The brother feels as though he now needs to portray this personality trait. Qualitative Gaslighting