Did you by any chance mean one of these? nationalization, normalization
Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. 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
Etymologies
- nominal + -ization (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Creating a noun out of a verb is called ‘nominalization’.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » “The Modern Practice of Making Certain Nouns into Verbs”
“Geoff: Is the linguistic phenomenon of nominalization connected much to the ontological phenomenon if reification?”
The Volokh Conspiracy » “The Modern Practice of Making Certain Nouns into Verbs”
“A style teacher I had a long time ago placed great emphasis on being aware of the use of nominalization — making nouns into verbs — as a means of avoiding wordiness.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » “The Modern Practice of Making Certain Nouns into Verbs”
“By the way, verb nominalization is the process that goes the other way.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » “The Modern Practice of Making Certain Nouns into Verbs”
“Malament 1982 had objected that the obstacles to the nominalization of phase-space theories in Hamiltonian mechanics seemed insuperable.”
“If Austin is right about this, then the nominalization “the agent's moving of his leg” should be correspondingly ambiguous, with a second reading that denotes a certain leg movement, a movement the agent has performed.”
“Similarly one could regard “consciousness” as referring to a component or aspect of reality that manifests itself in conscious states and creatures but is more than merely the abstract nominalization of the adjective “conscious” we apply to them.”
“Others take it to show that although both expressions are related to the same thing, the property honesty, they are related to by different semantic relations; for example, the nominalization denotes this property, whereas the predicate expresses it.”
“What is the nominalization of the French verb "lire"?”
“Batchelor's claim is that where the Buddha originally presented four noble "tasks," this version presents four noble "truths" (i.e., claims or dogmas; hence the nominalization).”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘nominalization’.
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WF - Word Formation Words
Classes of words and types of word formation
sniglet, protologism, portmanteau word, blend, telescope-word, frankenword, double-entendre, compound, derivative, palindrome, spoonerism, malapropism and 152 more...
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Sarah's words
adept, pedagogic, pedagogy, discerning, genuine, articulate, collaboration, enterprise, sterile, asunder, prudent, imprudent and 19 more...
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Neologistics
Basically this is a "words about words" list with a focus on neologism generation in all its various forms.
wordplay, paronomasia, madeupical, logodaedaly, onomatopoeic, verbification, nominalization, recontextualization, spoonerism, typo recycling, sloganeer, wordsmith and 59 more...
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Lifehacking
Start with the effect, the what; signal-patch known-belief spirit. "Write my program, routine me." New cue vs brand loyalty. Ritual Ceremony Design Technologies, Inc.
confusion, misdirection, fractionation, disequilibrium, relaxation, repetition, impassioned, intensity, suddenly, shock, concentration, focus and 118 more...
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Some Wednesday words
Just another arbitrary list of words that come up for me today, June 20 2007
tutelage, hobby horse, abracadabra, occipital, martinet, margarita, persona, cute, sharp, acute, confabulate, conspire and 97 more...
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bloodworm's list
These are words that I enjoy because they are unique, rare, long, or just cool.
circumlocution, hysteresis, schadenfreude, quixotic, loquacious, ennui, sesquipedalian, defenestrate, obfuscate, syzygy, ubiquitous, superfluous and 231 more...
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English grammar
terms relevant to English grammar
phrase, clause, sentence, complement, modifier, adjunct, specifier, constituent, syntax, bar level, supplement, coordination and 285 more...
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Autological Words
Words that refer to or describe themselves.
autological, homological, heterological, english, word, polysyllabic, pentasyllabic, hippopotomonstros..., nominalization, trochee, spondee, semordnilap and 27 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for nominalization.
slumry a verb or another part of speech. Jun 26, 2007
seanahan The process by which a verb is turned into a noun. Jun 26, 2007