Meaning & use
liminal
Relating to a transitional or in-between stage or threshold, neither fully one state nor another.
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The airport lounge felt like a liminal space, suspended between the country she was leaving and the one she was entering.
Adolescence is often described as a liminal period, no longer childhood but not yet adulthood.
A note on using this word
Liminal comes from the Latin limen, meaning threshold, and appears often in psychology and design writing; avoid using it simply to mean vague.
Words with a similar meaning
transitionalin-betweenborderline
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