subliminal
existing or operating below the threshold of consciousness; being or employing stimuli insufficiently intense to produce a discrete sensation but often being or designed to be intense enough to influence the mental processes or the behavior of the individual: a subliminal stimulus;subliminal advertising.
Origin of subliminal
1Other words from subliminal
- sub·lim·i·nal·ly, adverb
- non·sub·lim·i·nal, adjective
- non·sub·lim·i·nal·ly, adverb
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How to use subliminal in a sentence
And I think that, subliminally at least, the hidden story of the shoot is what helps sell us on the visible story of its subject.
He managed to do that by reducing the health debate down to almost subliminally simple terms.
It is possible to assume that I knew it subliminally, and that the medium abstracted it from those hidden levels of my mind.
Psychical Miscellanea | J. Arthur HillI speak of calculations subliminally performed in the carrying out of post-hypnotic suggestions.
Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death | Frederick W. H. MyersSuch an impression, for instance, is that of alarm, suggested by some vague sound or odour which is only subliminally perceived.
Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death | Frederick W. H. Myers
I believe that his patients did subliminally receive such hints, and work them out in their own hypnotic behaviour.
Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death | Frederick W. H. MyersBesides, she felt, more subliminally, that he was never so near slipping through her fingers as when he took that meek way.
Between The Dark And The Daylight | William Dean Howells
British Dictionary definitions for subliminal
/ (sʌbˈlɪmɪnəl) /
resulting from processes of which the individual is not aware
(of stimuli) less than the minimum intensity or duration required to elicit a response
Origin of subliminal
1Derived forms of subliminal
- subliminally, adverb
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