Explain the word "sublime".?

Question

Describe the word "sublime" as it would apply to 19th century philosophy/art. Try to describe it in visual references. I want everyone to appreciate the strange beauty of the word.

Answer 1

To discuss the term sublime is itself a little curious, if not paradoxical, since the essence of something sublime is to produce a sensation, a response, *that cannot be conveyed in words*
It doesn't have to be beautiful, or majestic.
Horror or astonishment also provide sources where "an encounter with the sublime renders the subject’s conceptual capabilities temporarily bewildered, shocked, and paralyzed. " (URL)

"Ineffable" has a degree of correspondence, used largely in respect of theological concepts.

So what are we left with, since the concept must be sketched around, not directly expressed?
No piece of writing or art is sublime unless it provokes a reaction of that degree in the observer. It is not a thing of objectivity, or majority view.

I think too much to easily connect to the sublime.
I touch it sometimes, looking at some of the works of JMW Turner. But to describe it? My spirit lifts, I feel a connection, an understanding, a recognition of something other than an image in paint. But words do not suffice.
That's the point.

Answer 2

It means below or beneath a lime. In the 19th century, they didn't have subways yet, so everyone rode the lime, until they came up with the sublime.

Answer 3

Sublime used in that context would mean a signt so phenomanaly beautiful that it creates an ecstatic state of mind that borders on the spiritual.

Answer 4

Above and beyond the normal.
A sublime sunset would not be a normal sunset. It would be infused with fantastic colours, heavenly colours that your eyes would rarely see.

Answer 5

in chemistry-when a solid directly changes to gaseous form
literally it means to make your life great from ordinary
in the words of a renowned poet "make your life sublime"

Answer 6

The stage of an element between liquid and solid. i think.