Superliminal

Quick meaning: Superliminal is an adjective meaning (psychology, physiology, of mental activity) Of, pertaining to, or involving conscious awareness; above the threshold of the subconscious.

Meaning

(psychology, physiology, of mental activity) Of, pertaining to, or involving conscious awareness; above the threshold of the subconscious.

More Meanings

1. (rare, philosophy, parapsychology, of mental activity) Of, pertaining to, or involving a supposed kind of awareness which is above and beyond the experiential range of normal consciousness.

Example Sentences

Conscious or subconscious, subliminal or superliminal, they are still “mental processes.”

If the illumination is steadily increased from sub-liminal to super-liminal values, the deeply saturated colour will come out from the blackness.

And it does not matter how you subdivide the mind into what you call the subliminal, the superliminal, the superconscious, the subconscious or whatever.

In him you simply have nature's top-notch imitator. He never questions, he never asks why. . . . His brain, the conscious, active, superliminal, is not able to grasp a situation and reason it out.

Word Forms

• super-liminal

Antonyms for superliminal

Common opposites include subliminal.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include super-liminal, subliminal, supraliminal, supraliminar, sub-liminal, underthreshold.

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