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Liminal is an English adjective meaning "on the threshold", from Latin līmen , plural limina .
Liminal or Liminality may refer to:
Anthropology and religion
Liminality , the quality of ambiguity or disorientation that occurs in the middle stage of a rite of passage
Liminal deity , a god or goddess in mythology who presides over thresholds, gates, or doorways
Liminal being , mythical being of ambiguous existence
Liminal state, English translation of
bardo in Tibetan Buddhism
Arts and media
Psychology
Limen , a threshold of a physiological or psychological response
Liminal experiences, feelings of
abandonment (existentialism) associated with death, illness, disaster, etc.
See also
Topics referred to by the same term