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.

Eftless

a person with hands pressed on a window

Keir

a snowy landscape with trees and a fence

Aubadoir

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

Achenia

a close-up of a bottle with an organic object inside

Bareleveling

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

Mogging Folly

a person sitting on a bench