Today’s Words That Work: Liminal
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Liminal (LIM-uh-nl) — from the Latin for “threshold” — refers to the point beyond which a sensation becomes too faint to be experienced.
Example (as used by Stacey D’Erasmo in a New York Times review of I Curse the River of Time by Per Petterson): “[Petterson's] tale lives in the liminal, nauseating space where you don’t know who you are anymore or what will become of you.”
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