sublimateverb [ T ]
uk/ˈsʌb.lɪ.meɪt/us/ˈsʌb.lə.meɪt/specializedto express strong emotions or use energy by doing an activity, especially an activity that is considered socially acceptable:
Hostile feelings and violent responses often seem to be sublimated into sporting activities.
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Science of psychology & psychoanalysis
- cognitive psychology
- commit
- committal
- Freudian
- gestalt
- id
- inkblot test
- Jungian
- Oedipal
- psych
- psycho
- psychoanalyse
- psychological
- repression
- shock therapy
- shrink
- superego
- trance
- transference
- word association
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sublimation
noun [ U ] uk/ˌsʌb.lɪˈmeɪ.ʃən/us/ˌsʌb.ləˈmeɪ.ʃən/