masking
/mˈæskɪŋ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.13 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The act by which something is masked; the act of masking, of concealing or disguising.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "“To function effectively in any social situation,” writes Booth, “we all engage in masking of one kind or another: we do some prettying up: we adorn, […]""
- "African Americans, particularly those who have to work and live in predominantly white spaces, also engage in masking."
- "The vassals or tenants collected in the hall for Christmas masking and mumming—the peasant gathering that May-day called out upon the green, drew together ranks whose distance, in our day, occasions forgetfulness on one side, and discontent on the other."
- "Such things, maskings, and disguisings, and dressing up, sometimes in incredible and wild fashions, are all part of the fun of carnival."
- "For millions of American lives touched by the coronavirus, it was too late to correct the failure to stand up protocols for masking and social distancing, testing and contact-tracing. But negative consequences of the culture war around the pandemic could still lie ahead, damaging the national vaccination effort."