subthreshold

[ suhb-thresh-ohld, -thresh-hohld ]

adjectivePsychology, Physiology.
  1. (of a stimulus) too weak to produce a response.

Origin of subthreshold

1
First recorded in 1940–45; sub- + threshold

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