[adjective] - not recognized or understood by the conscious mind, but still having an influence on itThe interview was carried out in front of a factory to give voters the subliminal message that the Prime Minister was a man of the people.Subliminal advertising uses indirect ways of influencing people to be attracted to a product, such as using a picture of a farm to advertise food to suggest that it is fresh.
SUBLIMINAL
Meaning of SUBLIMINAL in English
Cambridge English vocab. Кембриджский английский словарь. 2012