According to anthropologist victor turner, the second state of rites of passage that involves a period of outsiderhood during which the individual is set apart from normal society and exists on the margins of everyday life is termed:

The second state of rites of passage in which involves a period of outsiderhood during the individual is set apart from the normal society and exist on the margins of the everyday life is called the liminality. It is because liminality is where the people involved does not have the hold of their pre ritual status and that they are not yet in the verge of transition when in terms to the status they hold when ritual is completed-this usually occurs in the middle stage of the rituals that are being held.