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.

Anderance

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

Craxis

a tall house of cards

Ludiosis

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

Anti-Aliasing

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

Boorance

a group of objects on a table

Tornomov

a cloudy sky and landscape