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super-liminal

super-liminal is the alternative form of superliminal.

Meaning of superliminal

Adjective

superliminal (comparative more superliminal, superlative most superliminal)

  1. 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.1924, James P. C. Southall (translator), Hermann von Helmholtz (author), Helmholtz's Treatise on Physiological Optics Volume 1 (1962 Dover edition, a translation of Handbuch der Physiologischen...
  2. (rare) 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...1891, Frederic William Henry Myers, The Principles of Psychology, page 118

Forms of super-liminal

comparativemore super-liminal
superlativemost super-liminal

Questions about super-liminal

What is super-liminal the alternative form of?
Super-liminal is the alternative form of superliminal.

Words near super-liminal in the dictionary

  1. super-instantaneous
  2. super-Jovian
  3. super-Jupiter
  4. super-Jupiters
  5. super-light
  6. super-liminal
  7. super-Locrian
  8. super-luxurious
  9. super-magnificent
  10. super-majorities
  11. super-majority

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