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supraliminal

[ soo-pruh-lim-uh-nl ]

adjective

Psychology.
  1. being above the threshold of perception of a stimulus.


supraliminal

/ ˌsjuː-; ˌsuːprəˈlɪmɪnəl /

adjective

  1. of or relating to any stimulus that is above the threshold of sensory awareness Compare subliminal
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Derived Forms

  • ˌܱˈԲ, adverb
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Other 51Թ Forms

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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of supraliminal1

First recorded in 1890–95; supra- + liminal
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The delivery model is considered supraliminal, using messages that are visible and processed cognitively.

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The "conscious Self" of each of us, as we call it,—the empirical, the supraliminal Self, as I should prefer to say,—does not comprise the whole of the consciousness or of the faculty within us.

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With these experiments are intermingled many spontaneous phenomena; and the chapter will take up and continue the spontaneous phenomena of Chapters III. and IV. as well as the experiments of Chapter V. Its theme will be the messages which the subliminal self sends up to the supraliminal in the form of sensory hallucinations:—the visions fashioned internally, but manifested not to the inward eye alone; the voices which repeat as though in audible tones the utterance of the self within.

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Alongside of the faculty or achievement of man's ordinary or supraliminal self I shall demarcate the faculty or achievement which I ascribe to his subliminal self; and alongside of this again I shall arrange such few well-attested phenomena as seem prim� facie to demand the physical intervention of discarnate intelligences.

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At any rate, we have actually on record,—and that is what our argument needs,—a great series of id�es fixes, of various degrees of intensity, cured by suggestion;—cured, that is to say, by a subliminal setting in action of minute nervous movements which our supraliminal consciousness cannot in even the blindest manner manage to set to work.

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