underthreshold

Meaning

Adjective

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

Origin

From under- + threshold, probably a calque of German unterschwellig, from unter- + Schwelle. More at under, sill.

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