Liminal

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Liminal is an English adjective, "on the threshold", from Latin līmen, plural limina, "threshold". Liminality is the abstract noun formed from liminal. Articles:

Anthropology

• Liminality, the middle state of a rite of passage
• Category:Liminal deities, gods of transitions
• Liminal being, mythical being of ambiguous existence
• Liminal state, English translation of bardo in Tibetan Buddhism

Psychology

• Liminality or Liminal point, a limen, or threshold, of a response beyond which a sensation becomes too faint to be experienced ^[1]
• Liminal experiences, feelings of abandonment (existentialism) associated with death, illness, disaster, etc.

Publications

• Liminal States, a novel by Zack Parsons

Other

• .hack//Liminality, an animated series tied to, and packaged with, the .hack video game series.