szublimál

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Hungarian

Etymology

From German sublimieren, from Latin sublimare, sublimatum.[1] With the verb-forming suffix -ál.

Pronunciation

Verb

szublimál

  1. (transitive, physics) to sublimate (to change state from a solid to a gas without passing through the liquid state)
  2. (transitive, psychoanalysis) to sublimate (to modify the natural expression of a sexual or primitive instinct in a socially acceptable manner; to divert the energy of such an instinct into some acceptable activity)

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References

  1. ^ Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (’A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN

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