liminal

In a sentence.

1. 01

   The quiet airport at dawn felt like a liminal place.

2. 02

   Graduation left her in a liminal season between school and work.

Where it came from.

Liminal comes from Latin līmen, ‘threshold.’ The literal doorway became a way to describe spaces and experiences that sit between established states.

Why it’s interesting.

It gives a precise word to the odd feeling of being between places or phases, when one chapter has ended and another has not quite begun.