English

Alternative forms

• nominalisation (Non-Oxford British spelling)

Noun

nominalization ‎(plural nominalizations) (American, Oxford British English)

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

• substantivation
• substantivization / substantivisation

Derived terms

• agentive nominalization / agentive nominalisation
• nominalizer

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