thresholder

Etymology

From threshold + -er.

thresholder means A person who occupies the threshold between places or statuses. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 74 out of 100.

Why “thresholder” is a great word

THRESHOLDER — [Noun] A person who occupies the threshold between places or statuses. From threshold (from Old English þrescold, þerxold, of uncertain origin, perhaps related to thresh) and the agent-noun suffix -er. Unlike a "liminal being," which abstracts a state of ritual transition, or a "neophyte," which specifies a raw beginner, a thresholder is the conscious inhabitant of a specific doorway. It is the emigrant with one foot on the gangplank and homeland’s soil still on their shoe; the graduate on the morning after finals, holding a diploma that feels like both a prize and a receipt; the patient in the hushed hour before dawn, awaiting a verdict. To be a thresholder is to live in the parenthesis of your own life.

noun

A person who occupies the threshold between places or statuses.“The site of their transformation is the forest in which they dwell as thresholders in transition from one state of existence to another.”