Subliminal vs Implication - What's the difference?
subliminal | implication |
(of a stimulus) Below the threshold of conscious perception, especially if still able to produce a response.
(uncountable) The act of implicating.
(uncountable) The state of being implicated.
(countable) An implying, or that which is implied, but not expressed; an inference, or something which may fairly be understood, though not expressed in words.
* 2011 , Lance J. Rips, Lines of Thought: Central Concepts in Cognitive Psychology (page 168)
(countable, logic) The connective in propositional calculus that, when joining two predicates A and B in that order, has the meaning "if A is true, then B is true".
As an adjective subliminal
is (of a stimulus) below the threshold of conscious perception, especially if still able to produce a response.As a noun implication is
(uncountable) the act of implicating.subliminal
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* sub-liminalAdjective
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* superliminalDerived terms
* subliminal advertising * subliminally * subliminal messageimplication
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Noun
- But we can also take a more analytical attitude to these displays, interpreting the movements as no more than approachings, touchings, and departings with no implication that one shape caused the other to move.