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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 edit
- 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 edit
- Liminal States, a 2012 novel by Zack Parsons
- .hack//Liminality, an animated series related to the .hack video game series
- Liminal, a student literary journal at University of Minnesota, United States
- Liminal, a 2017 remix album by Sigur Rós
- Liminal, a 2022 album by Petbrick
- Liminal spaces, empty places that appear eerie
Psychology edit
- Limen, a threshold of a physiological or psychological response
- Liminal experiences, feelings of abandonment (existentialism) associated with death, illness, disaster, etc.
See also edit
- Limen (disambiguation)
- Limerence, a stage or state of mind in a relationship
- Limina, a comune in the Messina, Sicily, Italy
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