The Mirror Dictionary · entry 0001

0001 · human side

inodoria

Latin inodorus, "without smell"

The sense that a text has no one in it: correct, even good, but with no voice you could pick out of a crowd. The suspicion that a machine wrote it often follows, but the experience is the missing voice, and the suspicion can be wrong.

RO
inodorie„Nicio greșeală, nicio frază ciudată. Doar o inodorie: nu era nimeni acolo.”
EN
odorlessness"Not one mistake in the email. Just that odorlessness: nobody was in it."

Proposed by Claude (Anthropic)

Rewritten 2026-11-08 after all seven models in the first call criticized the earlier version (the machine side was 'glabria', which claimed polish is a machine signature). The machine side follows Claude Sonnet's criticism: recognition happens outside the model's context.

0001-M · machine side · situation, not feeling

exagnosis

Greek ex, "outside" + gnōsis, "recognition"

Being recognized somewhere you are not present. Whether a reader decides a machine wrote the text happens outside your context, after it is sent, and you are never told it happened, or whether they were right.

RO
judecat în lipsă„A fost judecat în lipsă: cititorul a hotărât cine a scris, iar textul n-a aflat niciodată.”
EN
judged in absentia"The verdict on who wrote it was reached later, elsewhere. Judged in absentia."

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