Anti-Aliasing

Cover image for the Anti-Aliasing word card on the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

Anti-Aliasing

n.
curiosity about the real flesh-and-blood people behind internet usernames, whose flamboyant uniqueness suggests that when our parents were searching our nameless faces looking for hints of who we would become, they really should have considered Mr. Cookieface, Unicornpuncher, Dutchess Von Whatever, or Wookiegasm.

In digital graphics, anti-aliasing is a technique to smooth the appearance of jagged pixels in low-resolution images.

Anderance

Cover image for the Anderance word card on the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

Winnewaw

a person wearing a party hat

Malotype

Cover image for the Malotype word card on the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

Star-Stuck

a man walking towards a door with a large question mark

Epistrix

several doors standing in a dark room

Beloiter

a person sitting at a slot machine