English
Etymology
From nominal + -ization or nominalize + -ation
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, (uncommon) substantivation
Derived terms
Translations
use of a verb or an adjective as a noun
- Catalan: nominalització f, substantivació f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 名詞化／名词化 (zh) (míngcíhuà), 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)
- Italian: sostantivazione (it), nominalizzazione f
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- Japanese: 名詞化 (めいしか, meishika)
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- 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
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- Vietnamese: danh từ hoá
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