nominalization

Definitions

1. A noun derived from an adjective, verb, etc., often (in English) by adding a suffix such as -ity, -tion or -ism.
   British, English, Oxford, US, countable
2. The act or process of nominalizing; the use of such a noun.
   British, English, Oxford, US, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Writers who overload their sentences with nominalizations tend⟳ to sound⟳ pompous and abstract.”

“The positive use⟳ of the feminine noun une rien has been gradually replaced by the nominalization of the pronoun and the adverb that commonly serve⟳ as negative auxiliaries, rien, un rien: “The word offers a short version of the evolution of the etymological meaning of chose inverted as néant (c. 1530)” (RT: DHLF)[…]”

“Nominalization and agentless passives have⟳ attracted sustained attention in critical linguistics and Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), where, it is argued, they ‘mystify’, i.e., reduce⟳ reader comprehension of, the role of social actors in depictions of events, particularly in news media discourse.”

“Nominalization is a common feature of a more scientific style of writing and is used as an additional measure⟳ for syntactic complexity.”

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