How to pronounce “liminal”

Meaning

• [Adjective]
• Of or pertaining to an entrance or threshold. [from late 19th c.]
• (anthropology, literary theory) Pertaining to or in a state that is in-between or transitional between two (or more) other states, while belonging to neither; pertaining to or in a state such as to be neither definitively in a particular other state or category nor definitively outside it.
• Of or pertaining to a beginning or first stage of a process. [from late 19th c.]

Practice Nearby Words

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Similar Sounds

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