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subliminal
adjective as in mental
adjective as in psychical
adjective as in subconscious
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adjective as in unconscious
noun as in subconscious
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Example Sentences
This may not be a surprise given that we often come across terms such as “subliminal advertising,” which implies that we are guided towards making consumer choices in ways that we don’t have any control over consciously.
So we may argue that our poor breakfast choice was down to subliminal advertising.
The more interesting aspect around this controversy is that people still believe, as has been shown in recent studies, that methods such as subliminal advertising are in use, when in fact there is legislation protecting us from it.
Take one provision against “subliminal techniques beyond a person’s consciousness in order to materially distort a person’s behaviour” in a way that could cause psychological harm.
At the same time, the film’s primary setting lends itself to a craftily subliminal observation about public and private identity.
Just the subliminal nature of being on stage and making a declarative statement rather than a passive one.
Although his first song was played on loop for months, the subliminal messaging in ‘Free Loop’ fell on deaf ears.
Subliminal ends up surveying a wide expanse of the psychology landscape, some parts of it more interesting than others.
Can there be any rational reason for such subliminal fear of a house without a door?
Indeed, that urge was more of a subliminal whisper from her past.
It was a new kind of inspiration, of that strange "subliminal uprush" which made the mystery of his life.
There has been talk for some years about unconscious facts, about sub-consciousness, subliminal consciousness, etc.
It must be traced in the literature of automatisms, hypnosis, divided personality, and the "subliminal."
She felt within her some shy subliminal renewal, as silent yet as implacable as the insidious first workings of spring.
But usually the subliminal self is considered as purely automatic.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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