Liminal vs Conscious - What's the difference?
liminal | conscious |
Of or pertaining to a threshold or entrance.
Of or pertaining to a beginning or first stage of a process; inceptive; inchoative; marginal.
Alert, awake.
Aware.
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Aware of one's own existence; aware of one's own awareness.
* 1999 , Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now , Hodder and Stoughton, pages 61–62:
As adjectives the difference between liminal and conscious
is that liminal is of or pertaining to a threshold or entrance while conscious is alert, awake.liminal
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(en adjective)Quotations
* 1888 , , Outlines of psychology , p. 114: *: Every stimulus must reach a certain intensity before any appreciable sensation results. This point is known as the threshold or liminal intensity. * 1999 , Sarah Iles Johnston, Restless Dead , p. 209: *: Second, spaces such as the threshold of a door are “liminal ,” lying between otherwise defined areas without belonging to either of them.Derived terms
* liminality * liminary * subliminal * superliminalReferences
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(en adjective)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=Here, in the transept and choir, where the service was being held, one was conscious every moment of an increasing brightness; colours glowing vividly beneath the circular chandeliers, and the rows of small lights on the choristers' desks flashed and sparkled in front of the boys' faces, deep linen collars, and red neckbands.}}
- Once again the animals were conscious of a vague uneasiness.
- The best indicator of your level of consciousness is how you deal with life's challenges when they come. Through those challenges, an already unconscious person tends to become more deeply unconscious, and a conscious' person more intensely ' conscious .