liminal

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Of or pertaining to an entrance or threshold. [from late 19th c.]
Synonym: thresholdlike

Of or pertaining to a beginning or first stage of a process. [from late 19th c.]
Synonyms: inceptive, inchoative, marginal

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When there is no possibility of retreat, we will find the innovation that only the liminal situation can bring. In short, we find the faith of leap. Alan Hirsch

Questioning the nature and implications of liminal instances necessarily involves failure, if only in the specifically technical sense of entering spaces where prevailing criteria of success scarcely apply. Brian Ferneyhough

Drones ply the liminal space between the physical and the digital - pilots fly them, but aren't in them. They are versatile and fascinating objects - the things they can do range from the mundane (aerial photography) to the spectacular - killing people, for example. John Battelle

Becoming an adventurous, liminal church means getting over risk aversion. Often the difference between a successful person (or organization) and a failure lies not in having better abilities or ideas, but in having the courage to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act. Alan Hirsch

Liminal sucks. You can't grasp it with your hands and shape it. You can't make midnight come faster, or grow up sooner, or avoid the in-betweens. You can only hang in there, and get through them. Karen Marie Moning

A liminal space, which can be both geographical as well as metaphorical or spiritual, is the transitional or transformational space between a “real” (secure, known, limited) world and an unknown or imaginary space of both risk and possibility. Source: Internet

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