Liminal

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

Arts and media

• Liminal States, a 2012 novel by Zack Parsons
• .hack//Liminality, an animated series related to the .hack video game series
• Liminal, a student literary journal at University of Minnesota, United States
• Liminal, a 2017 remix album by Sigur Rós
• Liminal, a 2022 album by Petbrick
• Liminal spaces, empty places that appear eerie

Psychology

• Limen, a threshold of a physiological or psychological response
• Liminal experiences, feelings of abandonment (existentialism) associated with death, illness, disaster, etc.

See also

• Limen (disambiguation)
• Limerence, a stage or state of mind in a relationship
• Limina, a comune in the Messina, Sicily, Italy