What is the difference between instinct and sublimate?
instinct | sublimate |
A natural or inherent impulse or behaviour.
* Shakespeare
* {{quote-book
, year=1921
, title=
, author=Bertrand Russell
, passage=In spite of these qualifications, the broad distinction between instinct and habit is undeniable. To take extreme cases, every animal at birth can take food by instinct, before it has had opportunity to learn; on the other hand, no one can ride a bicycle by instinct, though, after learning, the necessary movements become just as automatic as if they were instinctive.}}
An intuitive reaction not based on rational conscious thought.
(archaic) Imbued, charged ((with) something).
* Milton
* Brougham
* 1928 , (HP Lovecraft), ‘The Call of Cthulhu’:
(ambitransitive, physics) To change state from a solid to a gas (or from a gas to a solid) without passing through the liquid state.
To purify or refine a substance through such a change of state.
(psychoanalysis) 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.
(archaic) To raise to a place of honor; to refine and exalt; to heighten; to elevate.
* Dr. H. More
In context|archaic|lang=en terms the difference between instinct and sublimate
is that instinct is (archaic) imbued, charged ((with) something) while sublimate is (archaic) to raise to a place of honor; to refine and exalt; to heighten; to elevate.As nouns the difference between instinct and sublimate
is that instinct is a natural or inherent impulse or behaviour while sublimate is (chemistry) a product obtained by sublimation.As a adjective instinct
is (archaic) imbued, charged ((with) something).As a verb sublimate is
(ambitransitive|physics) to change state from a solid to a gas (or from a gas to a solid) without passing through the liquid state.instinct
English
(wikipedia instinct)Noun
- Many animals fear fire by instinct .
- By a divine instinct , men's minds mistrust / Ensuing dangers.
- an instinct''' for order; to be modest by '''instinct
- Debbie's instinct was to distrust John.
Derived terms
* instinctively * instinctiveAdjective
(en adjective)- The chariot of paternal deity / Itself instinct with spirit, but convoyed / By four cherubic shapes.
- a noble performance, instinct with sound principle
- This thing, which seemed instinct with a fearsome and unnatural malignancy, was of a somewhat bloated corpulence, and squatted evilly on a rectangular block or pedestal covered with undecipherable characters.
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Verb
(sublimat)- The precepts of Christianity are so apt to cleanse and sublimate the more gross and corrupt.
