Nominalization

Origin

nominal + -ization

Alternative forms

• nominalisation Non-Oxford British spelling

Full definition of nominalization

Noun

1. (linguistics) The use of a verb or an adjective as a noun, with or without morphological transformation, so that the word can now act as the head of a noun phrase.

Synonyms

• substantivization

Derived terms

• agentive nominalization
  agentive nominalisation