nominalizations

Noun

nominalization (countable and uncountable, plural nominalizations)

1. (British, English, Oxford, US, countable) A noun derived from an adjective, verb, etc., often (in English) by adding a suffix such as -ity, -tion or -ism.
   • Writers who overload their sentences with nominalizations tend to sound pompous and abstract.2012 July 23, Helen Sword, “Zombie Nouns”, in NY Times
2. (British, English, Oxford, US, uncountable) The act or process of nominalizing; the use of such a noun.
   • 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....2014 February 9, Barbara Cassin, Emily Apter, Jacques Lezra, Michael Wood, Dictionary of Untranslatables: A Philosophical Lexicon, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 722