nominalization
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.43 in modern English
25
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
5
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Writers who overload their sentences with nominalizations tend to sound pompous and abstract."
- "All words have argument structures. The argument structure of many nouns—such as names—is empty: We don’t need other words to complete them. But singular count nouns need a determiner to the left. And nominalizations of verbs have argument structures to follow. For example, a noun like destruction has a similar argument structure as its corresponding verb destroy: […]"
- "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. 1530)” (RT: DHLF)[…]"
- "Nominalization and agentless passives have attracted sustained attention in critical linguistics and Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), where, it is argued, they ‘mystify’, i.e., reduce reader comprehension of, the role of social actors in depictions of events, particularly in news media discourse."
- "Nominalization is a common feature of a more scientific style of writing and is used as an additional measure for syntactic complexity."
Etymology
From nominal + -ization, or nominalize + -ation.
Word Breakdown
Usage
- American usage
- Countable
- Uncountable