Liminal vs Consciousness - What's the difference?
liminal | consciousness |
Of or pertaining to a threshold or entrance.
Of or pertaining to a beginning or first stage of a process; inceptive; inchoative; marginal.
The state of being conscious or aware; awareness.
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As an adjective liminal
is of or pertaining to a threshold or entrance.As a noun consciousness is
the state of being conscious or aware; awareness.liminal
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Adjective
(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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Noun
(wikipedia consciousness)The machine of a new soul, passage=Yet this is the level of organisation that does the actual thinking—and is, presumably, the seat of consciousness .}}