Usually means: Threshold between two different phases.
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  1. liminality: Merriam-Webster
  2. liminality: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. liminality: Wordnik
  4. liminality: Wiktionary
  5. liminality: Infoplease Dictionary
  6. liminality: Dictionary.com
  7. Liminality: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. liminality: FreeDictionary.org
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  1. A Brief Critical Dictionary of Education (No longer online)

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  1. Liminality: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (liminality)

noun:  The fact of being on the border of, or in between, two states.
noun:  (anthropology, philosophy, sociology, psychology) The state or quality of ambiguity which exists in the middle stage of certain events or rituals (such as a rite of passage or a society-wide revolution), during which the participating individual or group no longer holds its pre-ritual status but has not yet attained the status it will hold when the ritual has been completed.

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