nominalize
verb (used with object)
to convert (another part of speech) into a noun, as in changing the adjective lowly into the lowly or the verb legalize into legalization.
nominalization
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a word derived from
nominalize.
Example Sentences
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Rare is the big-budget adventure, however, that retains a linguist specializing in syntax, morphology, ergativity and nominalization.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 25, 2016
The nominalization rule takes a perfectly spry verb and embalms it into a lifeless noun by adding a suffix like -ance, -ment, -ation, or -ing.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
Together with verbal coffins like model and level in which writers entomb their actors and actions, the English language provides them with a dangerous weapon called nominalization: making something into a noun.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
