Meaning

2 senses
  1. Positioned below a threshold.

  2. Being below the threshold or outside of the ordinary limits of consciousness; subconscious; subliminal.

Origin

From under- + threshold, probably a calque of German unterschwellig (“subliminal”, literal

From under- + threshold, probably a calque of German unterschwellig (“subliminal”, literally “under-threshold”), from unter- (“under-”) + Schwelle (“threshold”). More at under, sill.

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Forms

more underthreshold, most underthreshold

See also

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