Subliminal
adjective
Something that exists or works in a way that is not obvious or not directly noticeable.
The advertisement has subliminal messages to encourage people to buy the product.
Often appears as...
- subliminal message
- subliminal influence
adjective
Below the threshold of consciousness or sensation.
They use subliminal techniques to improve memory and learning.
Often appears as...
- subliminal stimulus
- subliminal advertising
Usage tips
Technical
adjective
Something that exists or works in a way that is not obvious or not directly noticeable.
The advertisement has subliminal messages to encourage people to buy the product.
Often appears as...
- subliminal message
- subliminal influence
adjective
Below the threshold of consciousness or sensation.
They use subliminal techniques to improve memory and learning.
Often appears as...
- subliminal stimulus
- subliminal advertising
Usage tips
Technical
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Indirect Influence
The word 'subliminal' suggests an effect on thought or behavior without being noticed.
The music had a subliminal effect on the shoppers' mood.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Immediate
Subliminal elements may require time or repetition to impact one's mind subtly.
He wasn't sure why, but the repeated subliminal slogans began to influence his choices.
Pro Tip 3/3Cultural Perception
Cultural background can affect whether something is considered subliminal.
To foreign visitors, the local customs carried subliminal messages of community.
Pro Tip 1/3Indirect Influence
The word 'subliminal' suggests an effect on thought or behavior without being noticed.
The music had a subliminal effect on the shoppers' mood.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Immediate
Subliminal elements may require time or repetition to impact one's mind subtly.
He wasn't sure why, but the repeated subliminal slogans began to influence his choices.
Pro Tip 3/3Cultural Perception
Cultural background can affect whether something is considered subliminal.
To foreign visitors, the local customs carried subliminal messages of community.
Pro Tip 1/3Indirect Influence
The word 'subliminal' suggests an effect on thought or behavior without being noticed.
The music had a subliminal effect on the shoppers' mood.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Immediate
Subliminal elements may require time or repetition to impact one's mind subtly.
He wasn't sure why, but the repeated subliminal slogans began to influence his choices.
Pro Tip 3/3Cultural Perception
Cultural background can affect whether something is considered subliminal.
To foreign visitors, the local customs carried subliminal messages of community.
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Video examples
What is déjà vu? What is...
when our brain subliminally takes in an environment while we're distracted by one particular object. When our attention returns, we feel as if we've been here before. For example, just now you focused on the fork and didn't observe the tablecloth or the falling waiter. Although your brain has been recording everything in your peripheral vision,
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were drawings I did in life drawing class screw there was some talent there but there's something else going on subliminal e even before I thought about paleontology I was seeing bones when I shouldn't be this was actually a living person and actually it turns out that
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Stories of Photographing...
And then he said, "No. My favorite song is ‘Yesterday.’ Think about it." And I thought about it. And I realized I'm being sent a subliminal message
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What is déjà vu? What is...
when our brain subliminally takes in an environment while we're distracted by one particular object. When our attention returns, we feel as if we've been here before. For example, just now you focused on the fork and didn't observe the tablecloth or the falling waiter. Although your brain has been recording everything in your peripheral vision,
Video examples
Extreme Dinosaurs PIPE...
were drawings I did in life drawing class screw there was some talent there but there's something else going on subliminal e even before I thought about paleontology I was seeing bones when I shouldn't be this was actually a living person and actually it turns out that
Video examples
Stories of Photographing...
And then he said, "No. My favorite song is ‘Yesterday.’ Think about it." And I thought about it. And I realized I'm being sent a subliminal message
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Quote examples
Lee Child
British Writer
I had been coming to America very frequently for many, many years, so I had plenty of exposure - and maybe the best kind of exposure, because I think first impressions are very important. Maybe I notice stuff that is just subliminal to people who live here all the time.
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Clint Eastwood
American Actor
I've always said the one advantage an actor has of converting to a director is that he's been in front of the camera. He doesn't have to get in front of the camera again, subliminally or otherwise.
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Tariq Ramadan
Swiss Writer
Advertising, music, atmospheres, subliminal messages and films can have an impact on our emotional life, and we cannot control it because we are not even conscious of it.
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Roger Rosenblatt
American Journalist
Every writing teacher gives the subliminal message, every time they teach: 'Your life counts for something.' In no other subject that I know of is that message given.
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Frank Peretti
American Author
I wanted to write a novel where the meaning is in the story and characters and the subliminal, in the shades and nuances. It's exciting to develop that as a writer.
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Thomas McGuane
American Author
Probably, subliminally, I think of the reader as a kind of collaborator. I don't want to say something for the reader that the reader could have said for himself.
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Leonard Mlodinow
American Physicist
By subliminal, I mean things that occur in our world that are below the threshold of consciousness but do have a psychological effect on us.
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William James
American Philosopher
If the grace of God miraculously operates, it probably operates through the subliminal door.
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Ziggy Marley
Jamaican Musician
In my songs, the sex is all subliminal. It's subliminal, spiritual.
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Steven Wright
American Comedian
I saw a subliminal advertising executive, but only for a second.
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Lee Child
British Writer
I had been coming to America very frequently for many, many years, so I had plenty of exposure - and maybe the best kind of exposure, because I think first impressions are very important. Maybe I notice stuff that is just subliminal to people who live here all the time.
Quote examples
Clint Eastwood
American Actor
I've always said the one advantage an actor has of converting to a director is that he's been in front of the camera. He doesn't have to get in front of the camera again, subliminally or otherwise.
Quote examples
Tariq Ramadan
Swiss Writer
Advertising, music, atmospheres, subliminal messages and films can have an impact on our emotional life, and we cannot control it because we are not even conscious of it.
Quote examples
Roger Rosenblatt
American Journalist
Every writing teacher gives the subliminal message, every time they teach: 'Your life counts for something.' In no other subject that I know of is that message given.
Quote examples
Frank Peretti
American Author
I wanted to write a novel where the meaning is in the story and characters and the subliminal, in the shades and nuances. It's exciting to develop that as a writer.
Quote examples
Thomas McGuane
American Author
Probably, subliminally, I think of the reader as a kind of collaborator. I don't want to say something for the reader that the reader could have said for himself.
Quote examples
Leonard Mlodinow
American Physicist
By subliminal, I mean things that occur in our world that are below the threshold of consciousness but do have a psychological effect on us.
Quote examples
William James
American Philosopher
If the grace of God miraculously operates, it probably operates through the subliminal door.
Quote examples
Ziggy Marley
Jamaican Musician
In my songs, the sex is all subliminal. It's subliminal, spiritual.
Quote examples
Steven Wright
American Comedian
I saw a subliminal advertising executive, but only for a second.
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