Liminal or Liminality may refer to:

Anthropology and religion

  • Liminality, the quality of ambiguity or disorientation that occurs in the middle stage of a rite of passage
  • Liminal deity, a god or goddess in mythology who presides over thresholds, gates, or doorways
  • Liminal being, mythical being of ambiguous existence
  • Liminal state, English translation of bardo in Tibetan Buddhism

Arts and media

  • Liminal (Beatie Wolfe and Brian Eno album), 2025
  • Liminal (Avralize album), 2025
  • .hack//Liminality, an animated series related to the .hack video game series
  • Liminal, a student literary journal at University of Minnesota, United States
  • Liminal, a 2017 remix album by Sigur Rós
  • Liminal, a 2022 album by Petbrick, see Igor Cavalera
  • Liminal space (aesthetic), empty places that appear eerie
  • Liminal (film), an upcoming American science fiction action thriller film

Psychology

  • Limen, a threshold of a physiological or psychological response
  • Liminal experiences, feelings of abandonment (existentialism) associated with death, illness, disaster, etc.

See also

  • Limen (disambiguation)
  • Limerence, a stage or state of mind in a relationship
  • Limina, a comune in the Messina, Sicily, Italy