| Front | limen \LY-muhn\ |
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| Back | noun A threshold of response: point at which a stimulus is of sufficient intensity to generate a response. [From Latin limen (threshold).] "Such to the dead might appear the world of living -- charged with information, with meaning, yet somehow always just, terribly, beyond that fateful limen where any lamp of comprehension might beam forth." - Thomas Pynchon; Against the Day; Penguin Press; 2006. |
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