Backmasking

a woman's face with a double exposure

Backmasking

n.
the instinctive tendency to see someone as you knew them in their youth—a burned-in image of grass-stained knees, graffitied backpacks, or handfuls of birthday cake, superimposed on an adult with a mortgage, or children of their own.

In audio recording, backmasking is a technique wherein a sound is deliberately recorded backward, so it’s only intelligible when played in reverse.

Lisolia

a bookcase containing objects

Aesthosis

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

Knellish

a blurry image of a person lying on a bed

Waldosia

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

Appriesse

a blurry image of a person looking at mounted images

Etherness

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