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nominalizing

nominalizing is the present participle and gerund of nominalize.

Meaning of nominalize

Verb

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

  1. (British, English, Oxford, US) To use as or change into a noun, often by affixing a morpheme.
    • 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.1960, Modern Language Association of America, Dwight le Merton Bollinger, Modern Spanish: A Project of The Modern Language Association, Harcourt, Brace, page 226
  2. (British, English, Oxford, US) To make nominalistic.

Questions about nominalizing

What is nominalizing the present participle and gerund of?
Nominalizing is the present participle and gerund of nominalize.

Words near nominalizing in the dictionary

  1. nominalized adjective
  2. nominalized adjectives
  3. nominalizer
  4. nominalizers
  5. nominalizes
  6. nominalizing
  7. nominally
  8. nominalness
  9. nominals
  10. nominant
  11. nominants

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