0 the act of expressing strong emotions or using energy by doing an activity or creating something, or the activity or work itself:
When I was in between relationships, work was almost a sublimation of my love.
How much was his fury against journalists simply a sublimation of the anger he felt about his personal relationships?
Sinclair developed a distinction between sublimation - in which sexual energies are rechannelled to spiritual ends - and repression, which eats away at the soul.
Some of Andersen's most famous stories are dramatisations or sublimations of his own dilemmas.
In both cases only sublimation of rac-alanine and the formation of the cyclic dipeptide can be observed.
During normal operation of these devices, power to the divertor plates does not usually exceed the critical values at which melting or sublimation can occur.
In this case ice, is able to undergo intensive sublimation if the surface is heated enough by sunlight.
We performed several three-day experimental runs of the intensive sublimation of ice.
