English

Alternative forms

• nominalise (Non-Oxford British spelling)

Verb

nominalize ‎(third-person singular simple present nominalizes, present participle nominalizing, simple past and past participle nominalized) (American, Oxford British English)

1. (linguistics) To change into a noun, usually by affixing a morpheme.
   • 1960, Modern Language Association of America, Dwight le Merton Bollinger, Modern Spanish: A Project of The Modern Language Association, Harcourt, Brace, page 226

     To nominalize an adjective that refers to a known noun, the articles el, la, los, and las are used (Unit 11 §59); to nominalize an adjective that does not refer to a known noun, the neuter article lo is used.

   • 1983, Peter Achinstein, The Nature of Explanation, Oxford University Press US, page 199

     But, Dretske asks, what happens when we nominalize a propositional allomorph?

2. (philosophy) To make nominalistic.

Related terms

• nominalizer, nominaliser
• nominalist
• nominalization, nominalisation

Translations

See also

• substantive
• substantivise, substantivize
• substantivisation, substantivization