• Antimasking

    Origin

    - + anti + masking

    Full definition of antimasking

    Adjective

    antimasking

    1. Preventing or counteracting masking.
      • 2010, The Handbook of Life-Span Development, Social and Emotional DevelopmentThe middle ear muscles, when contracted, serve an antimasking function by dampening the background noises and improving the ability of mammals to detect conspecific vocalizations.
    © Wiktionary