bokeh
[ boh-kuh, boh-key ]
noun
the blurry quality in the out-of-focus parts of a photograph, regarded as an aesthetic effect rendered by a particular lens or its digital simulation:This lens creates beautifully sharp images with delightful bokeh that glows and diffuses into the background.
Origin of bokeh
1First recorded in 1995–2000; from Japanese boke “fuzziness, blurring,” shortening of pinboke “state of being out of focus”
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