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Limbo (Noun)

An imaginary place for lost or neglected things.

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents.

The missing socks went to a strange limbo where they were never seen again, reunited with the lone gloves and solo earrings that had preceded them.
Her old phone charger had fallen into a technological limbo, rendered obsolete by newer models and incompatible with her current device.
The forgotten toys of her childhood had been relegated to a limbo of dusty boxes and faded memories, only occasionally disturbed by a curious younger sibling.
The old, broken appliances in the garage had entered a state of limbo, neither fully functional nor fully discarded, but rather stuck in a state of suspended animation.
The old photographs had been lost in a limbo of forgotten albums and misplaced frames, their subjects' faces fading into obscurity as the years went by.

(theology) in Roman Catholicism, the place of unbaptized but innocent or righteous souls (such as infants and virtuous individuals).

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents.

According to Roman Catholic teaching, the souls of unbaptized infants and virtuous pagans are relegated to a state of limbo, a condition of eternal natural bliss without communion with God.
Many medieval theologians located the limbo of the patriarchs and other righteous non-Christians at the upper end of the lower region of hell, accessible through the first circle of the abyss.
Catholics still retain a remnant of this early idea in their concepts of limbo and purgatory, realms where souls are held either because they were deprived of baptism or because they need purification.
St. Thomas Aquinas wrote that unbaptized souls, including those of virtuous non-Christians and of children, will experience limbo as an eternally frustrated but mildly happy condition, whereas blessedness entails experiencing the love of God directly.
A catechetical problem remains with this whole schema of ideas in which some Catholic faithful think about what precisely they think to happen with righteous but unbaptized and still an answer involving a mention of the so-called limbo keeps some issues under vague ambiguity.

The state of being disregarded or forgotten.

Nouns denoting natural processes.

The old, abandoned house had been left in limbo for years, its fate undecided by the city council.
After the company's merger, many employees found themselves in limbo, unsure if they would be laid off or retained.
The proposed legislation has been stuck in limbo for months, awaiting a decision from the committee.
The refugees were trapped in limbo, unable to return to their home country or gain citizenship in their host country.
The artist's career was in limbo after her record label dropped her, leaving her without a clear direction or support.