Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To convert into a noun.
Wiktionary
- v. linguistics To change into a noun, usually by affixing a morpheme.
- v. philosophy To make nominalistic.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. (Grammar, Linguistics) To convert into a noun.
Etymologies
- From nominal + -ize. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Batchelor's critical-textual argument boils down to this: the four noble truths as we typically receive them in the Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta (or "Wheel Turning" discourse) have been profoundly molded by the later insertion of "explanatory" subheadings that nominalize and mythologize each of the truths while simultaneously reversing the causal direction of some key relationships.”
“I suppose I agree to a point that it’s not terribly productive to try to nominalize the “subsidy” that “oil companies” get from neo-colonial military spending I don’t mean neo-colonial in the fully loaded moral sense, just military spending and action with either the intent or effect of providing access to raw materials.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘nominalize’.
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amagnano's Words
truculent, churlish, antipathy, sociopathy, loquacious, disheveled, pouilly-fuisse, enamored, marked, assuage, ascetic, pagan and 190 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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This list is a dumping/sorting ground. Maybe I'll get around to categorising these words, or not.
Probably, not.nominalize, nascent, adroit, felicitous, appellation, paramour, pneumatic, rapacious, sinistral, neologism, piquancy, plenitude and 60 more...
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