ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Desublimate

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech verb

Quick meaning: Desublimate is a verb meaning (intransitive, physics) To undergo desublimation; to change directly from a gas to a solid.

Meaning

(intransitive, physics) To undergo desublimation; to change directly from a gas to a solid.

More Meanings

  1. (transitive, sociology) Make explicit that which has been sublimated or obscured because it is not socially acceptable.

Example Sentences

The practice of pornography teaches its subjects to desublimate the sensuous apprehension.
When we desublimate the things we have repressed, we create a space in which we feel liberated to be as monstrous as we wish.
However, the question remains as to why the text does not desublimate the hard-boiled genre's investments around gender, sexuality, race, and nation with the same sort of scrupulous rigor that it demystifies the economic and social ideology of the form.

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Related Words

Related dictionary entries include sublimate, sublimize, sublimise, deliquesce, desubjectify, dissolve.

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