blurred boundaries
Where distinctions dissolve
Blurred boundaries describes a situation where distinctions between categories, roles, or domains have become unclear or indistinct.
The phrase often appears in discussions of professional ethics blurred boundaries between therapist and client, work-life balance Remote work has blurred boundaries between office and home, or identity blurred boundaries between self and other.
The implication is usually that clearer separation would be healthier or more appropriate.
- fuzzySoft and unclear
- fuzzy logicReasoning with gradations, not absolutes
- overlapPartial coincidence of coverage
- mergingBlending into one
- liminalAt a threshold
threshold · no man's land · ambiguous · hazy · soft focus · indistinct · bleeding · bleeding edge · seeping · dissolving · enmeshed · work life balance · tangled · codependent · permeable · porous · personal space · twilight
blurred boundarieswatertight compartments
Isolated hull divisions
compartmentalization · black-and-white thinking · hermetic seals
blurred, blurring, blurs, blurry, blurriness, boundary, bound, bounds, bounded