Sublimation
[,sʌblɪ'meɪʃən] or [,sʌblə'meʃən]
Definition
(noun.) (psychology) modifying the natural expression of an impulse or instinct (especially a sexual one) to one that is socially acceptable.
(noun.) (chemistry) a change directly from the solid to the gaseous state without becoming liquid.
Edited by Augustus--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The act or process of subliming, or the state or result of being sublimed.
(n.) The act of heightening or improving; exaltation; elevation; purification.
(n.) That which is sublimed; the product of a purifying process.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Vaporization (of a solid, to be again condensed).[2]. Refinement, exaltation, elevation.
Edited by Angelina
Examples
- Laboratory processes like distilling, filtering, crystallization, sublimation, became known to the Europeans through them. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- The Freudian school of psychologists calls this sublimation. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- That blood-coloured figure was a sublimation of all the horrid dreams which had afflicted the juvenile spirit since imagination began. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
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