nominalization

English

Etymology

nominal +‎ -ization

Alternative forms

• nominalisation (Non-Oxford British spelling)

Noun

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

1. (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

• substantivation
• substantivization / substantivisation

Derived terms

• agentive nominalization / agentive nominalisation
• nominalizer

Translations

use of a verb or an adjective as a noun

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 名詞化 (zh), 名词化 (zh) (míngcíhuà)

• 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