Definition of "liminal" []

• Pertaining to a threshold or entrance. (adjective)
• Relating to a beginning or first stage of a process; inceptive; inchoative; marginal; insignificant. (adjective)

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• "Havdalah marks what is called a "liminal moment," a boundary between the sacredness of the Sabbath and the ordinary days of the week."
• "Dragonflies tend to turn up at times in my life that I would describe as liminal -- threshold moments when you stand in the doorway between what your life was before and what it will be."
• "In anthropological terms, the transformative experience discussed above takes place during a phenomenon called the liminal state, that moment when a person has stepped across a psychological "threshold" out of the ordinary "world" of existence into a new "place" where they are open to experience, something undefined and unknown."