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LIMEN

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Irregular inflected form: limina  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The smallest detectable sensationplay

Synonyms:

limen; threshold

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("limen" is a kind of...):

aesthesis; esthesis; sensation; sense datum; sense experience; sense impression (an unelaborated elementary awareness of stimulation)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "limen"):

absolute threshold (the lowest level of stimulation that a person can detect)

difference limen; difference threshold; differential limen; differential threshold (the smallest change in stimulation that a person can detect)

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