nominalization

English

Alternative forms

• nominalisation (Non-Oxford British spelling)

Etymology

From nominal +‎ -ization or nominalize +‎ -ation.

Noun

nominalization (countable and uncountable, plural nominalizations) (American spelling, Oxford British English)

1. (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.
2. (linguistics, countable) An instance of such use: a noun formed from a nominalized adjective.

Synonyms

• substantivisation
• substantivation (uncommon)
• nounification

Derived terms

• agentive nominalization / agentive nominalisation
• nominalizer

Translations

use of a verb or an adjective as a noun

• Azerbaijani: isimləşmə
• Catalan: nominalització f, substantivació f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 名詞化／名词化 (zh) (míngcíhuà)

• Esperanto: substantivigo
• French: substantivation (fr) f, nominalisation (fr) f
• Galician: substantivación (gl) f, nominalización f
• German: Nominalisierung (de) f, Substantivierung (de) f, Hauptwortbildung f
• Greek: ουσιαστικοποίηση (el) f (ousiastikopoíisi)
• Indonesian: nominalisasi (id)
• Italian: sostantivazione (it), nominalizzazione f
• Japanese: 名詞化 (めいしか, meishika)
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: 명사화 (myeongsahwa)
• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Latvian: nominalizācija f
• Mongolian: нэршихүй (neršixüj) ᠨᠡᠷᠡᠰᠢᠬᠦᠢ (neresiküi̯), нэршил (mn) (neršil) ᠨᠡᠷᠡᠰᠢᠯ (neresil)
• Portuguese: substantivação (pt) f, nominalização f
• Russian: субстантива́ция (ru) f (substantivácija), номинализа́ция (ru) f (nominalizácija)
• Spanish: substantivación (es) f, nominalización (es) f
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: adlaştırma (tr)
• Vietnamese: danh từ hoá

Further reading

• nominalization at OneLook Dictionary Search
• nominalization, substantivization, substantivisation, substantivation at Google Ngram Viewer