Borderline vs Threshold - What's the difference?
borderline | threshold |
nearly; not clearly on one side or the other of a border or boundary, ambiguous.
Showing bad taste.
Exhibiting borderline personality disorder.
A boundary or accepted division; a border.
The bottom-most part of a doorway that one crosses to enter; a sill.
(by extension) An entrance
The start of the landing area of a runway
(engineering) The quantitative point at which an action is triggered, especially a lower limit.
The wage or salary at which income tax becomes due
The outset of an action or project
The point where one mentally or physically is vulnerable in response to provocation or to particular things in general. As in emotions, stress, or pain.
The point of beginning or entry
As nouns the difference between borderline and threshold
is that borderline is a boundary or accepted division; a border while threshold is the bottom-most part of a doorway that one crosses to enter; a sill.As an adjective borderline
is nearly; not clearly on one side or the other of a border or boundary, ambiguous.borderline
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- He is borderline hypoglycemic and needs to monitor his sugar intake.
- I would rather hire a talented layman than a university graduate with borderline qualifications.
- Your borderline remarks about my aunt's dress destroyed my evening.
Derived terms
* borderline personality disorderNoun
(en noun)- She lives on the borderline between reality and madness.
threshold
English
(wikipedia threshold)Noun
(en noun)- From all the pressure my partner has been through lately, his emotion threshold has suddenly gotten pretty low these days. I can tell because he easily loses it when he is around people or hears about anything to do with his concerns.