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Marginality vs Liminality - What's the difference?

marginality | liminality |

As nouns the difference between marginality and liminality

is that marginality is the state of being marginal while liminality is the state or quality of ambiguity which exists in the middle stage of certain events or rituals (such as a rite of passage or a society-wide revolution), during which the participating individual or group no longer holds its pre-ritual status but has not yet attained the status it will hold when the ritual has been completed.

marginality

English

Noun

  • The state of being marginal

    • See also

    *marginalia

    liminality

    English

    Noun

  • (anthropology, philosophy, sociology, psychology) The state or quality of ambiguity which exists in the middle stage of certain events or rituals (such as a rite of passage or a society-wide revolution), during which the participating individual or group no longer holds its pre-ritual status but has not yet attained the status it will hold when the ritual has been completed.

    • Related terms

    * liminal