sublimation
B2CEFR level
55/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister
A mature defence mechanism by which unacceptable impulses are unconsciously channelled into socially valued activity.
Through sublimation he redirected his aggression into competitive boxing rather than into open conflict.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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