SUBLIMINAL


Meaning of SUBLIMINAL in English

— subliminally , adv.

/sub lim"euh nl/ , adj. Psychol.

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.

[ 1885-90; SUB- + L limin- (s. of limen ) threshold + -AL 1 ]

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary.      Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House .