noun. The concealment or screening of one sensory process or sensation by another.

noun. A piece of theatrical scenery used to conceal a part of the stage from the audience.

noun. The act or diversion of covering the face with a mask, or of wearing a masquerade dress; masquerading.

noun. In photography, a device adopted in printing from an imperfect negative, consisting in pasting tissue-paper on the reverse side of the negative over the portions of the picture which print too deeply.

verb. Present participle of mask.

noun. scenery used to block the audience's view of parts of the stage that should not be seen

noun. the act of concealing the existence of something by obstructing the view of it

noun. the blocking of one sensation resulting from the presence of another sensation

"Built upon decades of lying, deceit and sleight of hand, the European Union has been carefully crafted from its beginnings as a simple treaty on shared access to coal and steel, through an ongoing succession of treaties over a 60-year period to the final implementation of an imperial constitution, as usual with a title masking its true nature, the Lisbon Treaty."

masking tape  

aesthesis  concealing  concealment  esthesis  hiding  

asking  basking  tasking  

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