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substantiving

substantiving is the present participle and gerund of substantive.

Meaning of substantive

Verb

substantive (third-person singular simple present substantives, present participle substantiving, simple past and past participle substantived)

  1. (rare) To make a word belonging to another part of speech into a substantive (that is, a noun) or use it as a noun.

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Questions about substantiving

What is substantiving the present participle and gerund of?
Substantiving is the present participle and gerund of substantive.

Words near substantiving in the dictionary

  1. substantive verbs
  2. substantived
  3. substantively
  4. substantiveness
  5. substantives
  6. substantiving
  7. substantivisation
  8. substantivisations
  9. substantivise
  10. substantivised
  11. substantivises

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Adapted from Wiktionary: substantiving (page history and authors); substantive (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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