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Liminal space imagery often depicts this sense of "in-between", capturing transitional places (such as stairwells, roads, corridors, or hotels) unsettlingly devoid of people. [5] The aesthetic may convey moods of eeriness, surrealness, nostalgia, or sadness, and elicit responses of both comfort and unease.
Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Liminal is an English adjective meaning "on the threshold", from Latin līmen, plural limina.
Liminal, as an adjective, means situated at a sensory threshold, hence barely perceptible. Subliminal means below perception. Subliminal means below perception. The absolute threshold is the lowest amount of sensation detectable by a sense organ.
Unlike liminal events, liminoid experiences are conditional and do not result in a change of status, but merely serve as transitional moments in time. [2] The liminal is part of society, an aspect of social or religious rites, while the liminoid is a break from society, part of "play" or "playing".
A legendary liminal being is a legendary creature that combines two distinct states of simultaneous existence within one physical body. This unique perspective may provide the liminal being with wisdom and the ability to instruct, making them suitable mentors , whilst also making them dangerous and uncanny .
The term limnology was coined by François-Alphonse Forel (1841–1912) who established the field with his studies of Lake Geneva.Interest in the discipline rapidly expanded, and in 1922 August Thienemann (a German zoologist) and Einar Naumann (a Swedish botanist) co-founded the International Society of Limnology (SIL, from Societas Internationalis Limnologiae).
A liminal deity is a god or goddess in mythology who presides over thresholds, gates, or doorways; "a crosser of boundaries". [1] These gods are believed to oversee a state of transition of some kind; such as, the old to the new, the unconscious to the conscious state, the familiar to the unknown.
Limen is a word of equivocal semantics written in the Latin alphabet, and used in many different modern languages, including English.It generally, but not necessarily, represents the Latin word limen, plural limina, “threshold,” or is a transliteration into the Latin alphabet of the ancient Greek word, λιμήν, “harbor, refuge, creek.”