Meaning & use
Liminality
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The quality or state of being in an in-between, transitional stage, neither fully one thing nor another.
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The novel captures the liminality of adolescence, caught between childhood and adulthood.
Anthropologists study the liminality experienced by initiates during rites of passage.
A note on using this word
Coined from Latin 'limen' (threshold); popularized in anthropology by Arnold van Gennep and Victor Turner.
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transitionalityin-betweenness
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