subliminal
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ə adjective Psychology.
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.
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subliminal (sʌbˈlɪmɪnəl) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —adj | |
| 1. | resulting from processes of which the individual is not aware |
| 2. | (of stimuli) less than the minimum intensity or duration required to elicit a response |
| [C19: from Latin | |
| sub'liminally | |
| —adv | |
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Etymonline
Word Origin & History
subliminal
1886, "below the threshold" (of consciousness), formed from sub "below" + L. limen (gen. liminis) "threshold." Apparently a loan-translation of Ger. unter der Schwelle (des Bewusstseins) "beneath the threshold (of consciousness)," from Johann Friedrich Herbart (1776-1841), author of a textbook on psychology
published in 1824. The scare over subliminal advertising came in 1957.
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Medical Dictionary
subliminal sub·lim·i·nal (sŭb-lĭm'ə-nəl)
adj.
Below the threshold of conscious perception. Used of stimuli.
Inadequate to produce conscious awareness but able to evoke a response.
sub·lim'i·nal·ly adv.
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Example sentences
And the subliminal message is that everything tastes better soaked in fat, animal fat.
Frontoparietal activation has also been found in studies of subliminal stimulus processing.
Participants meeting the study criteria will be randomized to the perceived stimulation or subliminal stimulation group.
Their work has allied itself with the discreet, almost subliminal beauty that radiates from the objects themselves.
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