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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
/ ŭ′lə-′ə /
- 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 .)
Other 51Թ Forms
- ܲl·tDz· adjective
- ԴDzȴܲ··tDz noun
- ȴܲ··tDz noun
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of sublimation1
Example Sentences
But the quality of her performance depends on how deeply she can sink into the role, and Nikki will do anything — consciously or otherwise — to achieve utter sublimation, and, in turn, total perfection.
Readers will understandably recoil at the musician’s callousness, especially given Mintz’s sublimation of himself in the service of Lennon and Ono.
Once the sample has been fully solidified, the solid solvent is removed by sublimation during lyophilization.
As several COMs, including those detected in the solid phase in this research, were previously detected in the warm gas phase, it is now believed that they originate from the sublimation of ices.
How about a righteous female cop who takes her cases a little too personally, going so far as to endanger herself as a sublimation of the dissatisfaction in her domestic life?
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