liminal
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- adjective
- /ˈlɪmɪnəl/
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liminal
- In psychology, times of transition are known as liminal states, as being on a threshold.
- liminal space
- liminal status
- liminal period
So last in the liminal space because the door to the next season will open.
- So last in the liminal space because the door to the next season will open.
- So they have to engage in this serious place so they can taste that and decide in that liminal space, am I going to commit to that?
- And so now, in this brief liminal space nestled between our past and our future, we pause.
- There's this liminal Anglosphere, right, of folks who speak English but have taken the UK code base.
- And that's a, that's a gift that's like a, that's like this rare liminal space that most people you know, can't access in their lives.
- There's nothing strange and liminal and ambiguous about it.
Examples
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Where you're in a liminal space in between two things.
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Rites of passage have three phases: separation, transition (liminal), and worldly return.
Academic text (1994) -
So last in the liminal space because the door to the next season will open.
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And where does forgiveness live in this liminal space?
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The actual cutting occurs right at dawn, in the liminal period between night and day.
Academic text (1991) -
In this brief liminal space nestled between the past and the future, let us pause.
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The pilgrim church is itself a liminal reality, occupying the border between heaven and earth.
Academic text (2008) -
The arcade is recognized as a liminal space between worlds and even between different eras.
Academic text (2000) -
They are concurrently temporalities of transition, balanced on the liminal edge between transgression and transition.
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The actual cutting occurs right at dawn, in the liminal period between night and day.
Synonyms
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In the middle between two other things, neither the start nor the end
Near the edge between two stages, like childhood and adulthood
How Transitional
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Liminal comes from the Latin word limen, meaning 'threshold', like the line at a doorway between two places. You can see the same root in subliminal, meaning 'below the threshold', so liminal describes something on a boundary or in a state between two conditions.