- the diversion of the energy of a sexual or other biological impulse from its immediate goal to one of a more acceptable social, moral, or aesthetic nature or use.
- the act, fact, or process of subliming.
- a purification or refinement; ennoblement.
- (in Freudian psychology) the diversion of psychic energy derived from sexual impulses into nonsexual activity, esp of a creative nature
- the process or an instance of sublimating
- something sublimated
- the process or instance or subliming
