liminality (English, noun)
expansion: liminality (countable and uncountable, plural liminalities)
Senses:
glosses: The fact of being on the border of, or in between, two states.
tags: countable
uncountable
topics: anthropology
human-sciences
philosophy
psychology
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: 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.
tags: countable
uncountable
Forms:
form: liminalities
tags: plural