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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.
The sea is the home of selkies, mermaids, these liminal creatures that slip back and forth between states as between elements.
It's a book that's always beginning, where everything is introductory, liminal, prefatory.
As far as Russian folk belief is concerned, during this liminal period the body still retains some vestige of life.
The airport fills in as a liminal zone where one's own otherness becomes more visible, if not necessarily legible.
The shojo is located as a liminal identity between childhood and adulthood.

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