Liminal

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  • adj. Pertaining to a threshold or entrance.
  • adj. Relating to a beginning or first stage of a process; inceptive; inchoative; marginal; insignificant.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. of or pertaining to a limen, especially a sensory threshhold.
  • adj. marginally perceptible.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Pertaining to the threshold or entrance; hence, relating to the beginning or first stage; inceptive; inchoative.
  • Specifically In psychophysics, pertaiuing to the stimulus limen or differential limen. See limen.
    • Word Usage
    "Dragonflies tend to turn up at times in my life that I would describe as liminal -- threshold moments when you stand in the doorway between what your life was before and what it will be."
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