Tag: Sublimate

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sub·li·mate

[sublimate]

VERB
sublimates (third person present) · sublimated (past tense) · sublimated (past participle) · sublimating (present participle)
  1. (in psychoanalytic theory) divert or modify (an instinctual impulse) into a culturally higher or socially more acceptable activity.
    “libido must be sublimated into productive work activities” · “he sublimates his hurt and anger into humor”
    synonyms:
    channel · control · divert · transfer · redirect · convert · refine · purify · transmute
  2. chemistry
    another term for sublime.
NOUN
chemistry
sublimates (plural noun)
  1. a solid deposit of a substance which has sublimed.
ORIGIN
late Middle English (in the sense ‘raise to a higher status’): from Latin sublimat- ‘raised up’, from the verb sublimare.