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What does liminality mean?

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Noun
  1. (philosophy) 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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In fact, if one thing is ubiquitous these days it would seem to be liminality.
Outside and opposed to normal social life, liminality is also given ritual expression in licence, disorder, and role reversal.
The concept of liminality figures prominently within The Canterbury Tales.
By no means universal, this character tended to flourish during the period because of his liminality.
Her entrancement with liminality in cultures, genders, and technologies became the basis of her master's thesis, Engendered Machines and Humanbeasts.
From the texts of the late 1970s and early 1980s on bodily space-time, death, marginality and liminality to this discourse of your honorary doctorate, one is stricken by a quaint feature.

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