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单词 liminality
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liminality


lim·i·nal

L5182950 (lĭm′ə-nəl)adj.1. Intermediate between two states, conditions, or regions; transitional or indeterminate: "While doctors operate, she hangs suspended in the liminal space between life and death" (Jeremy Eichler).2. Existing at the limen. Used of stimuli.
[Latin līmen, līmin-, threshold + -al.]
lim′i·nal′i·ty (-năl′ĭ-tē) n.lim′i·nal·ly adv.

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liminality

the situation of those in transit across the symbolic boundaries between statuses, especially in RITUALS (e.g. in RITE OF PASSAGE, CARNIVAL) – see A. van Gennep, The Rites of Passage (1909).
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