superliminal

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superliminal

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From super- + liminal.

adjective more superliminal · most superliminal · super-liminal

  1. of mental activity Of, pertaining to, or involving conscious awareness; above the threshold of the subconscious. If the illumination is steadily increased from sub-liminal to super-liminal values, the deeply saturated colour will come out from the blackness.
  2. rare, of mental activity Of, pertaining to, or involving a supposed kind of awareness which is above and beyond the experiential range of normal consciousness. The better we realise these differences, the more averse shall we be to predicting to what depth into our cellular being such perception may be pushed by those artifices of hypnotic trance, automatic writing, &c., which we are only just learning to employ. Who, even now, can maintain that there is a

Opposite: subliminal

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@misc{superliminal_2026,
  title = {superliminal},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/superliminal},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}