substantivation
English edit
Noun edit
substantivation (countable and uncountable, plural substantivations)
- The process or result of making something substantive.
French edit
Etymology edit
From substantiver + -ation.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
substantivation 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.