just-noticeable difference

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   (psychophysics) the difference between two stimuli that (under properly controlled experimental conditions) is detected as often as it is undetected

   Synonymsjnd

   Broaderdifference threshold

   psychophysics

Questions about just-noticeable difference

What does just-noticeable difference mean?

just-noticeable difference means "(psychophysics) the difference between two stimuli that (under properly controlled experimental conditions) is detected as often as it is undetected".

What is another word for just-noticeable difference?

Close synonyms include jnd. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is just-noticeable difference a common word?

just-noticeable difference is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.