substantivation
English
editNoun
editsubstantivation (countable and uncountable, plural substantivations)
- The process or result of making something substantive.
French
editEtymology
editFrom substantiver + -ation.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editsubstantivation f (plural substantivations)
- substantivization, nominalization
- La substantivation, très vivante en ancien français, ne se produit plus guère aujourd’hui que dans le discours philosophique.
- Nominalization, very active in Old French, hardly ever occurs today except in philosophical discourse.
Further reading
edit- “substantivation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.