Meaning of nounify | Babel Free

Definitions

To turn into a noun.

rare, transitive

Examples

“In modern parlance, the difference between nouns, adjectives, and verbs has blurred somewhat: nouns take on the appearance of adjectives, verbs become nounified, and so on.”

“[...] Authors have a maddening tendency to nounify verbs and to privilege verbified nouns in their languaged discourse; they have proclivity toward vocabularistically challenged prose [...]”

“The Pentagon has now nounified it [the word push back].”

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