nominalization
EnglishEdit
Alternative formsEdit
- nominalisation (Non-Oxford British spelling)
EtymologyEdit
From nominal + -ization or nominalize + -ation.
NounEdit
nominalization (countable and uncountable, plural nominalizations) (American spelling, Oxford British English)
- (linguistics, uncountable) The use of a word which is not a noun (e.g. a verb or adjective) as a noun, with or without morphological transformation.
- (linguistics, countable) An instance of such use: a noun formed from a nominalized adjective.
SynonymsEdit
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
use of a verb or an adjective as a noun
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Further readingEdit
- nominalization at OneLook Dictionary Search
- nominalization, substantivization, substantivisation, substantivation at Google Ngram Viewer