liminality.

The condition of being between established stages, states, places, or identities.

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Words that belong together

• social liminality
• a sense of liminality

On the page

The abandoned border station heightened the story’s sense of liminality.

Her liminality between exile and return shaped every encounter.

Usage notes

Primary category: horror. Forms: Usually uncountable; no ordinary plural. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.