adjective

• (of a stimulus or mental process) below the threshold of sensation or consciousness; perceived by or affecting someone's mind without their being aware of it.

  ‘A number of these studies have used subliminal stimuli to produce the increase in positive affect.’

  More example sentences

  • ‘As is typical with this method, no participant reported being aware of the subliminal faces.’
  • ‘An audio subliminal message could be defined as a verbal stimulus perceived below the threshold of awareness.’
  • ‘Designed to work on a subliminal level, after the event it grows in the mind's eye rather than fading from memory.’
  • ‘In lay terms, he is interested in how subliminal information can be conveyed.’

  Synonyms

  subconscious, unconscious

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