Desublimate

verb

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Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To undergo desublimation; to change directly from a gas to a solid. intransitive
  2. 2
    Make explicit that which has been sublimated or obscured because it is not socially acceptable. transitive

    "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."

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"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."

Etymology

From de- + sublimate.

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