Stealth vs Subliminal - What's the difference?
stealth | subliminal |
(uncountable) The attribute or characteristic of acting in secrecy, or in such a way that the actions are unnoticed or difficult to detect by others.
(archaic, countable) An act of secrecy, especially one involving thievery.
* 1877 , George Hill, An Historical Account of the Plantation in Ulster at the Commencement of the Seventeenth Century , M'Caw, Stevenson & Orr, page 352:
(of a stimulus) Below the threshold of conscious perception, especially if still able to produce a response.
As a noun stealth
is (uncountable) the attribute or characteristic of acting in secrecy, or in such a way that the actions are unnoticed or difficult to detect by others.As an adjective subliminal is
(of a stimulus) below the threshold of conscious perception, especially if still able to produce a response.stealth
English
Noun
- [The King] thinks it fit[...] that restitution according to this order be made to the petitioners for stealths committed upon them last winter (273).