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Liminality

The condition of being at a threshold or in an intermediate state between established identities, places, or stages.

Short Definition

The condition of being at a threshold or in an intermediate state between established identities, places, or stages.

Difficulty

Intermediate

Language Origin

Latin

Categories

The condition of being at a threshold or in an intermediate state between established identities, places, or stages. In sculpture, liminality can describe works concerned with transition—life and death, sacred and secular, figure and abstraction, interior and exterior, or material becoming image.