nominalization
nounEtymology
From nominal + -ization, or nominalize + -ation.
Definitions
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.
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
- synonymnounification
- synonymsubstantivation
- synonymsubstantivisation
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