a. Psych. [f. SUPRA- 1 a + L. līmin-, LIMEN threshold: after subliminal.] Above the limen or threshold of sensation or consciousness; belonging to the ordinary or normal consciousness: opp. to SUBLIMINAL.
1892. F. W. H. Myers, in Proc. Soc. Psychical Res., Feb., 306. I hold … that this subliminal consciousness and subliminal memory may embrace a far wider range both of physiological and of pyschical activity than is open to our supraliminal consciousness. Ibid. [see SUBLIMINAL].
Hence Supraliminally adv.
a. 1901. F. W. H. Myers, Human Personality, I. 87. We need not postulate any direct or supernormal knowledge,—but merely a subliminal calculation,… expressing itself supraliminally.
