liminal space
collocation in Englishmeaningsofliminalandspace
These words are often used together. Click on the links below to explore the meanings. Or,see other collocations withspace.
liminal
adjective
uk/ˈlɪm.ɪ.nəl/us/ˈlɪm.ən.əl/
between or belonging to two different places, ...
See more atliminal
space
noun
uk/speɪs/us/speɪs/
an empty area that is available to ...
See more atspace
(Definition ofliminalandspacefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofliminal space
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
In other words, their interest lies in theliminalspacebetween character and performer.
From theCambridge English Corpus
There was no significantliminalspacebefore they acquired the responsibilities of an adult.
From theCambridge English Corpus
I conclude by suggesting that the defining ofliminalspacemight be usefully extended, in thinking about street performance, into the notion of 'liminal spacetime'.
From theCambridge English Corpus
They warmed the foreground, aliminalspacebetween an omniscient audience and a transcendent nature.
From theCambridge English Corpus
We therefore might usefully think not ofliminalspaceor of unallocated time, but in terms of liminal spacetime, and so find ourselves engaged in a sort of performative relativity.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Behrens depends on textual and pictorial evidence of the community around this dynamite factory to identify migrant workers' residences as 'liminalspace' (p. 351).
From theCambridge English Corpus
Busking is a sophisticated and complex business of appropriating, maintaining, and exploitingliminalspacein which those epiphenomena that are not strictly musical have a clear performative and territorial function.
From theCambridge English Corpus
He did this to explore the ideas ofliminalspaceand time.
From
Wikipedia
Individuation can be seen as a movement throughliminalspaceand time, from disorientation to integration....
From
Wikipedia
Worship can be understood in this context as the church community (or "communitas" or "koinonia") enter intoliminalspacecorporately.
From
Wikipedia
They occupy aliminalspacebetween this world and the afterlife.
From
Wikipedia
However, these physical practices also re-choreographed the hidden and liminal spaces to which they were restricted.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Archaeological sites are the liminal spaces of later mythologies.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Seagroatt moved between the two, weaving sinuous cats-cradles of fractured melody in theliminalspacewhere metal met jazz.
From
Wikipedia
Performing one's way out of thisliminalspaceand transforming identity into an aggregated or consummated form is a complex process that requires time, but the reward is true freedom.
From
Wikipedia
The abject exists accordingly somewhere between the concept of an object and the concept of the subject, representing taboo elements of the self barely separated off in aliminalspace.
From
Wikipedia
Aron thus misses opportunities to explore the wider significances of culturally transgressive liminal spaces such as the beach.
From theCambridge English Corpus
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
Want to learn more?
Go to the definition ofliminal
Go to the definition ofspace
See other collocations withspace