Sublimation

(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.

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• Laboratory processes like distilling, filtering, crystallization, sublimation, became known to the Europeans through them. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• The Freudian school of psychologists calls this sublimation. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• That blood-coloured figure was a sublimation of all the horrid dreams which had afflicted the juvenile spirit since imagination began. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.

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