limen
noun
limen is a noun meaning “A liminal point; the threshold of a physiological or psychological response” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled L-I-M-E-N, and it appears about once in every 56 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of limen is limens or limina.
What does limen mean?
noun
- 1
A liminal point; the threshold of a physiological or psychological response.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of limen
- limens plural
- limina plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is limen?
Limen appears about once in every 56 million words in written English, the 234,209th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does limen come from?
Learned borrowing from Latin līmen (“threshold”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).