Sometimes, TV shows censor people's faces with pixels that hide the details, I am wondering if there's a noun for that, because I am trying to say something in an idiomatic way, but I find it hard without being able to refer to it.
For example, look at this sentence:
They removed the censored part, thereby showing the face of the
person who decided to speak in anonymity.
Censored part sounds odd in this context, so is there a better alternative?
Best Answer
When it's done as pixels, we use pixelated and pixelation.
You can write:
Wikipedia gives "pixelization", but pixelate appears more common.
Many will write "pixelated" even when it would be more correct to use another word (eg I News referring to a blurred image as "pixelated"):
So you can have
If it is actually censorship and not privacy, you can also write
Very occasionally you see redaction bar Guardian which would be appropriate for both privacy and censorship. You could certainly write
"Redaction" is quite a formal word.