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the soft-focus filter reality wears when it doesn't want you seeing clearly.
means A faint, thin atmospheric obscurity — of dust, smoke, or moisture — that blurs the view, or by extension any state of mental fog or unclear thinking.
from "Haze" surfaces in English in the 17th century, possibly as a back-formation from "hazy," itself of murky parentage. One suggested relative is the Old English "hasu," meaning gray or dusky; another points across the water to a possible cousin in the German "Hase," hare, by way of mariners' slang — but honestly, the trail goes faint, which feels fitting for a word about not seeing clearly. The verb "to haze" meaning to bully or torment is likely a separate strand entirely, tied to a French "haser," to irritate or harass.
- purple prize
- Hendrix immortalized it without ever defining it
- frat fuel
- hazing kills enough students to spawn anti-haze laws
- weather word
- haze is dry, fog is wet, scientifically distinct
- hop trend
- hazy IPAs deliberately stay cloudy and unfiltered
- brain version
- sleep deprivation produces a measurable cognitive haze
great smog of london — killed ~12,000 people in december 1952 from coal pollution
southeast asian haze 2015 — indonesia forest fires blanketed malaysia and singapore, aqi exceeded 2000 in some areas
beijing air pollution — regularly reaches hazardous levels; aqi of 886 recorded in january 2013