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sublimation
[ suhb-luh-mey-shuhn ]
noun
- Psychology. the diversion of the energy of a sexual or other biological impulse from its immediate goal to one of a more acceptable social, moral, or aesthetic nature or use.
- Chemistry. the act, fact, or process of subliming.
- a purification or refinement; ennoblement.
sublimation
/ sŭb′lə-mā′shən /
- The process of changing from a solid to a gas without passing through an intermediate liquid phase. Carbon dioxide, at a pressure of one atmosphere, sublimates at about −78 degrees Celsius. Ice and snow on the Earth's surface also sublimate at temperatures below the freezing point of water.
- Compare deposition
sublimation
1- In Freudian psychology, a defense mechanism by which the individual satisfies a socially prohibited instinctive drive (usually sexual or aggressive) through the substitution of socially acceptable behavior. For example, someone with strong sexual drives who paints nude portraits may be engaging in sublimation.
sublimation
2- In chemistry , the direct conversion of a solid into a gas , without passage through a liquid stage. ( See phases of matter .)
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Other Words From
- subli·mation·al adjective
- nonsub·li·mation noun
- resub·li·mation noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of sublimation1
First recorded in 1350–1400; from Middle French, from Late Latin sublimation-, stem of sublimatio “elevation,” equivalent to Latin sublimāt(us), past participle of sublimāre “to elevate” + -iō -ion ( def ); sublimate ( def )
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Example Sentences
And that treatise of Van de Water, the Belgian, on the sublimation of the sub-conscious by the negation of the self-censor.
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Personal experience, they say, means more to them than theory, even though the theory be the sublimation of all experience.
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The sublimation having been carried to a sufficient extent, the fires are allowed to die out.
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The residuum consists of a violet-coloured powder, which, by sublimation, is converted into cinnabar.
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It is then refined by a second sublimation, and melted into the masses in which it is commonly sold.
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