Liminal is an English adjective meaning "on the threshold", from Latin līmen, plural limina.
Liminal or Liminality may refer to:
Anthropology and religion
- 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
Psychology
- Limen, a threshold of a physiological or psychological response
- Liminal experiences, feelings of abandonment (existentialism) associated with death, illness, disaster, etc.
See also
Topics referred to by the same term