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Subliminal   Listen
adjective
Subliminal  adj.  
1.
(Philos.) Existing in the mind, but below the surface or threshold of consciousness; that is, existing as feeling rather than as clear ideas.
2.
Having or using an intensity of sensory stimulus insufficient to be perceived consciously, but having an effect on unconscious mental processes; as, subliminal advertising. Note: The existence of such an effect is still not universally accepted.






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"Subliminal" Quotes from Famous Books



... hear me," he was murmuring, until her softening attitude touched somewhere upon the receiver of his subliminal mind. Then he responded, and bent ...
— Sunlight Patch • Credo Fitch Harris

... active thinking mind. It performs likewise certain very definite and distinct functions in connection with the body. It is this that is called the subconscious mind—by some the superconscious or the supernormal mind, by others the subliminal self. ...
— The Higher Powers of Mind and Spirit • Ralph Waldo Trine

... of his, you will ask; these suggestions, fugitive, rhapsodical, mystical; this furibund allegro about Money, Mediums, and Bohemia; these sobs and tears and asseverations, in which our Lady of the Studio and Shakib are both expunged with great billahs;—the force and significance of these subliminal uprushes, dear Reader, we confess we are, like yourself, unable to understand, without the aid of our Interpreter. We shall, ...
— The Book of Khalid • Ameen Rihani

... a kind of peril in the symphony for the poet of uncertain balance from the betrayal of his own temper despite his formal plan. Through all the triumph of a climax as in the first movement of the Fourth Symphony, we may feel a subliminal sadness that proves how subtle is the expression in music of the subjective mood. There is revealed not the feeling the poet is conscious of, but, below this, his present self, and in the whole series of his works, his own personal mettle. What the poet tries to say is ...
— Symphonies and Their Meaning; Third Series, Modern Symphonies • Philip H. Goepp



Words linked to "Subliminal" :   unperceivable, imperceptible



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