nominalised
Turned into noun
Nominalised is the British spelling of nominalized, describing something that has been turned into a noun.
Verbs and adjectives commonly get nominalised: "decide" becomes "decision," "happy" becomes "happiness." Academic and bureaucratic writing tends toward heavily nominalised prose, which can feel abstract or evasive: The implementation of the reduction rather than We cut it.
Converting words to nouns
- gerundVerb-derived noun form
- infinitiveUnconjugated verb form
- conversionAct of changing states
- derivationSource or origin tracing
substantive · zero-derivation · suffix · participle · clause · complement · argument · predicate
Treating abstracts as concrete
- objectificationReducing humans to things
- conceptualizationMental creation of ideas
- substantivizationConverting words to nouns
- concretizationMaking abstract things tangible
thingification · entity · abstraction · ideation · generalization · construct · essence · universals
Formal name or title
- appellationName or title given
- labelingAssigning identifying markers
- titlingAssigning a name
- identificationEstablishing who someone is
categorization · classification · tagging · branding · christening · dubbing · entitling · terming
Act of changing states
- derivationSource or origin tracing
- word-formationCreating new vocabulary items
- recategorizationAssigning new classification
- transpositionSwapping positions of elements
nominalization
Converting words to nouns
- gerundVerb-derived noun form
- infinitiveUnconjugated verb form
- conversionAct of changing states
derivation · substantive · zero-derivation · suffix · participle · clause · complement · argument · predicate · subject
reification
Treating abstracts as concrete
- objectificationReducing humans to things
- conceptualizationMental creation of ideas
- substantivizationConverting words to nouns
concretization · thingification · entity · abstraction · ideation · generalization · construct · essence · universals · particulars
designation
Formal name or title
- appellationName or title given
- labelingAssigning identifying markers
- titlingAssigning a name
identification · categorization · classification · tagging · branding · christening · dubbing · entitling · terming · styling
conversion
Act of changing states
- derivationSource or origin tracing
- word-formationCreating new vocabulary items
- recategorizationAssigning new classification
nominalisedverbalised
Expressed in speech
verbal · unconverted · underived · adjectival · uninflected