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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. (chemistry) a change directly from the solid to the gaseous state without becoming liquid;

2. (psychology) modifying the natural expression of an impulse or instinct (especially a sexual one) to one that is socially acceptable;


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Sublimation \Sub"li*ma`tion\, n. [LL. sublimatio: cf. F. sublimation.] 1. (Chem.) The act or process of subliming, or the state or result of being sublimed. [1913 Webster] 2. The act of heightening or improving; exaltation; elevation; purification. [1913 Webster] 3. That which is sublimed; the product of a purifying process. [1913 Webster] Religion is the perfection, refinement, and sublimation of morality. --South. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

sublimation n 1: (chemistry) a change directly from the solid to the gaseous state without becoming liquid 2: (psychology) modifying the natural expression of an impulse or instinct (especially a sexual one) to one that is socially acceptable
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

79 Moby Thesaurus words for "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