nominalization
Noun
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Noun
nominalization (American spelling, Oxford British spelling)
- (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
- French: substantivation, nominalisation
- German: Nominalisierung, Substantivierung, Hauptwortbildung
- Italian: sostantivazione, nominalizzazione
- Portuguese: substantivação, nominalização
- Russian: субстантива́ция
- Spanish: substantivación, nominalización
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