nominalization

noun

Etymology

From nominal + -ization, or nominalize + -ation.

  1. derived from nōminālis
  2. inherited from nominalle
  3. suffixed as nominalization — “nominal + ization

Definitions

  1. A noun derived from an adjective, verb, etc., often (in English) by adding a suffix such…

    A noun derived from an adjective, verb, etc., often (in English) by adding a suffix such as -ity, -tion or -ism.

    • Writers who overload their sentences with nominalizations tend to sound pompous and abstract.
  2. The act or process of nominalizing

    The act or process of nominalizing; the use of such a noun.

    • Nominalization is a common feature of a more scientific style of writing and is used as an additional measure for syntactic complexity.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for nominalization. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA