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sublimation

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun sublimation has 2 senses

CIDE DICTIONARY

sublimationn. [LL. sublimatio: cf. F. sublimation.].
  •  The act or process of subliming, or the state or result of being sublimed.  [1913 Webster]
  •  The act of heightening or improving; exaltation; elevation; purification.  [1913 Webster]
  •  That which is sublimed; the product of a purifying process.  [1913 Webster]
    "Religion is the perfection, refinement, and sublimation of morality."  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

sublimation

aeration, aerification, alienation, atomization, autism, autistic thinking, avoidance mechanism, blame-shifting, block, blocking, bolting, clarification, colature, compensation, conversion, decompensation, defense mechanism, dereism, dereistic thinking, destructive distillation, displacement, dissociation, distillation, edulcoration, elution, elutriation, emotional insulation, escape, escape into fantasy, escape mechanism, escapism, essentialization, etherealization, etherification, evaporation, exhalation, extraction, fantasizing, fantasy, filtering, filtration, flight, fluidization, fractionation, fumigation, gasification, isolation, leaching, lixiviation, mental block, negativism, overcompensation, percolation, projection, psychotaxis, purification, rationalization, refinement, repression, resistance, riddling, screening, separation, sieving, sifting, smoking, sociological adjustive reactions, spiritualization, steaming, straining, substitution, suppression, symbolization, vaporization, volatilization, winnowing, wish-fulfillment fantasy, wishful thinking, withdrawal

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Elevation

N elevation, raising, erection, lift, sublevation, upheaval, sublimation, exaltation, prominence, lever, crane, derrick, windlass, capstan, winch, dredge, dredger, dredging machine, dumbwaiter, elevator, escalator, lift, elevated, stilted, attollent, rampant, on stilts, on the shoulders of, on one's legs, on one's hind legs.

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