a not clearly revealed or formulated direction of thought, intention, action, etc., underlying what is manifested: His words, though ostensibly friendly, betrayed a subcurrent of hostility.
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A place where subcurrents of pain are metabolized, and from which erotic desire and creativity supposedly spring.
The old myth of age to youth and the subcurrent of sin with its stalking, laughing, subtle Mephistopheles.
There was a subcurrent of excitement in her voice, and the night seemed to grow more still as she went on speaking.
She talked volubly, and with just that pitch in her voice that betrays a subcurrent of excitement.