Limen

Word LIMEN
Character 5
Hyphenation limen
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Limen"

What do we mean by limen?

The point at which a stimulus is strong enough to produce a physiological or psychological response. noun

In experimental psychology and psychophysics, the threshold; the dividing line between noticeableness and unnoticeableness of stimulus. noun

In anatomy, the portion of brain-substance situated between the base and the island of Reil. noun

A threshhold, especially the point where a psychological or physiological effect begins to occur. noun

The smallest detectable sensation noun

A liminal point; the threshold of a physiological or psychological response.

A person who’s both a fan of why don’t why (limelight) and ariana grande (arianator) Urban Dictionary

Synonyms and Antonyms for Limen

The word "limen" in example sentences

Although I'm very grateful for your teaching me the word limen anyway. ❋ Unknown (2005)

The copyeditor, or Crowley himself, whoever it was that failed to get "limen" into the final print run, can be punished later. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Just a thought: The word 'limen' is often associated these days with margins 'liminality' is frequently defined as a state of existence 'in the margins', and medieval manuscripts were illuminated, or limned, in the margins of the page. ❋ Unknown (2005)

This term is derived from 'limen' and 'post,' which explains why we say that the person who has been captured by the enemy and has come back into our territories has returned by postliminium: for just as the threshold forms the boundary of a house, so the ancients represented the boundaries of the empire as ❋ John Baron Moyle (1891)

Grateful for the opportunity to swing past, hold the door for them, go up to my office and do the work I can to make their profs 'jobs easier. lim-i-nal \ˈli-mə-nəl\ (adj) Latin limin -, limen threshold 1: of or relating to a sensory threshold 2: barely perceptible 3: of, relating to, or being an intermediate state, phase, or condition ❋ Da_lj (2009)

Technology is "the liminal appearance of the event of appropriation," P. 32 the limen of a possible era determined solely by surface fluctuations. ❋ Enowning (2009)

So I stay between, sheltered by the limen, a step inside a step outside. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The word ‘Subliminal’ is derived from the latin words sub = below and limen = threshold. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Subliminal comes, of course, from the Latin sub (below) and limen (lintel). ❋ Michelle (2008)

January 21, 2008 at 10:40 am ai duznt noe- mebbe chrumchee disnee kerakters? flavered cherrreee, limen, green, an graype. ❋ Unknown (2008)

"Elegi ad limen esse in domo Dei mei magis quam habitare in tabernaculis peccatorum." ❋ Terry Nelson (2006)

I'm actually hoping now that he did write "limn," because it's certainly a nicer-sounding word than limen, and if enough people use it as a noun then by George it will be a noun—judging from this comment thread, there's a ready-made constituency for it. ❋ Unknown (2005)

You "understood" it because you assumed it was correct and created a meaning to fit; if you can explain to me exactly how the phrase "the limn of hurt consciousness" works, given the verbal meaning of limn, in a convincing way, I'll rethink my position, but since limen makes perfect since and (as far as I can see) limn doesn't (even leaving aside its nonexistence), I'm standing pat for now. ❋ Unknown (2005)

A Bible critic would say that we should be looking for the lectio difficlior, and so your English limen is not to be preferred. ❋ Unknown (2005)

But set it to Australian English and Word accepts limen. ❋ Unknown (2005)

You may well be right with limen but I immediately assumed he meant limb, in the astronomical sense: "the outer edge of the apparent disk of a celestial body" M-W. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Nevertheless, considering LanguageHat's deconstruction, having found typos in more than a few published books, and after spell-checking limen in Microsoft Word resulted in limn offered as one of the corrections, I'm inclined to agree with the idea that limen might have been the intended word. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Quo facto, flexit vnusquisque nostrum quater genu sinistrum, et monuerunt, ne tangeremus limen deorsum. ❋ Unknown (2004)

You like both [ariana grande] and [why don’t we]? You [must be] a limenator! ❋ Limenator (2019)

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