nominalization

English

Alternative forms

nominalisation (Non-Oxford British spelling)

Etymology

nominal +‎ -ization

Noun

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

(linguistics) The use of a word which is not a noun (e.g. a verb or adjective) as a noun, with or without morphological transformation, so that the word can now act as the head of a noun phrase.
Synonyms: substantivisation, substantivation (uncommon)

Derived terms

Translations

use of a verb or an adjective as a noun

Chinese:
Mandarin: 名詞化 (zh), 名词化 (zh) (míngcíhuà)
Esperanto: substantivigo
French: substantivation (fr) f
Galician: substantivación (gl) f
German: Hauptwortbildung f, Substantivierung (de) f
Greek: ουσιαστικοποίηση (el) f (ousiastikopoíisi)
Italian: sostantivazione (it)
Japanese: 名詞化 (めいしか, meishika)

Khmer: please add this translation if you can
Korean: please add this translation if you can
Lao: please add this translation if you can
Latvian: nominalizācija f
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
Vietnamese: danh từ hoá

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