ALL meanings of nominalization
nom·i·nal·ize
N n - noun nominalization (linguistics) The use of a verb or an adjective as a noun, with or without morphological transformation, so that the word can now act as the head of a noun phrase. 1
- verb with object nominalization to convert (another part of speech) into a noun, as in changing the adjective lowly into the lowly or the verb legalize into legalization. 1
- verb with object nominalization to convert (an underlying clause) into a noun phrase, as in changing he drinks to his drinking in I am worried about his drinking. 1
- noun nominalization the conversion of a word or phrase into a noun 0