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subliminals

subliminals is the plural of subliminal.

Meaning of subliminal

Noun

subliminal (plural subliminals)

  1. (broadly) An advertisement, a message, etc., which is conveyed in a manner that a person is unaware of being influenced by it.
  2. (Internet) An audio or video recording, often consisting of ambient music or white noise with hidden affirmations, intended to produce physical or psychological changes in the listener through repetition.
    • She spent all night listening to a subliminal to change her eye color.
  3. Chiefly preceded by the: the subconscious (dated) or unconscious self.

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Questions about subliminals

What is subliminals the plural of?
Subliminals is the plural of subliminal.

Words near subliminals in the dictionary

  1. subliminalize
  2. subliminalized
  3. subliminalizes
  4. subliminalizing
  5. subliminally
  6. subliminals
  7. subliming
  8. sublimings
  9. sublimise
  10. sublimised
  11. sublimises

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Adapted from Wiktionary: subliminals (page history and authors); subliminal (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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