Liminality
Quality of ambiguity or disorientation that occurs in the middle of a process of transition, e.g. a rite of passage, any change of social status of an individual or any change of social order of a society
In anthropology, liminality is the quality of ambiguity or disorientation that occurs in the middle stage of a rite of passage, when participants no longer hold their pre-ritual status but have not yet begun the transition to the status they will hold when the rite is complete. During a rite's liminal stage, participants "stand at the threshold" between their previous way of structuring their iden... Wikipedia