Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

desublimate

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: desub-li-mate
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

3

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To undergo desublimation; to change directly from a gas to a solid.

Intransitive verb

verb

Make explicit that which has been sublimated or obscured because it is not socially acceptable.

Transitive verb

Example Sentences

"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."
"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."

Etymology

From de- + sublimate.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: de

Usage

Inflected Forms

desublimates (present, singular) desublimating (participle, present) desublimated (participle, past) desublimated (past)

Questions

What does desublimate mean?: To undergo desublimation; to change directly from a gas to a solid.
Where does desublimate come from?: From de- + sublimate.

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