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liminality

noun

Etymology

From liminal + -ity.

  1. derived from *-mn̥✻
  2. derived from *Heh₃l-✻ — “to bend, bow; elbow”
  3. derived from limināris
  4. suffixed as liminality — “liminal + ity”

Definitions

  1. The fact of being on the border of, or in between, two states.

  2. The state or quality of ambiguity which exists in the middle stage of certain events or…

    The state or quality of ambiguity which exists in the middle stage of certain events or rituals (such as a rite of passage or a society-wide revolution), during which the participating individual or group no longer holds its pre-ritual status but has not yet attained the status it will hold when the ritual has been completed.

    • The second way Novalis seeks to repotentize his thought is by striving to evoke feelings conducive to liminality.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA