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What does liminal mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word liminal? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Of or pertaining to a threshold or entrance.
  2. Of or pertaining to a beginning or first stage of a process
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At death, the body enters upon a brief liminal stage which ends at the committal.
We invite you to send us your thoughts, feelings, and rants concerning our liminal stage of personal and professional life.
The liminal position between tradition and adaptation has been described by Ralph Ellison as the quintessential American identity.
The airport fills in as a liminal zone where one's own otherness becomes more visible, if not necessarily legible.
This play between liminal and subliminal is an accustomed part of a novelist's technique.
It's a book that's always beginning, where everything is introductory, liminal, prefatory.

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