Nounify
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Nounify is a verb meaning (rare, transitive) To turn into a noun.
Meaning
(rare, transitive) To turn into a noun.
Example Sentences
The Pentagon has now nounified it [the word push back].
In modern parlance, the difference between nouns, adjectives, and verbs has blurred somewhat: nouns take on the appearance of adjectives, verbs become nounified, and so on.
[...] Authors have a maddening tendency to nounify verbs and to privilege verbified nouns in their languaged discourse; they have proclivity toward vocabularistically challenged prose [...]
Word Forms
- nounifies
- nounifying
- nounified
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include nounize, nominify, noun, nominalize, verbify, substantify.
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