nominalization
Noun

nominalization (American spelling, Oxford British spelling)

  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: substantivisation, substantivation
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