nounify

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verb

To turn into a noun.

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Meanings

verbnounify (third-person singular simple present nounifies, present participle nounifying, simple past and past participle nounified)

present singular third person nounifies · participle present nounifying · participle past nounified · past nounified

  1. raretransitiveTo turn into a noun.

    The Pentagon has now nounified it [the word push back].

    2004, William Safire, The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
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    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.

    1997, Woody Leonhard, Lee Hudspeth, Timothy-James Lee, Excel 97 Annoyances

    [...] Authors have a maddening tendency to nounify verbs and to privilege verbified nouns in their languaged discourse; they have proclivity toward vocabularistically challenged prose [...]

    1998, Justice quarterly, (Please provide the book title or journal name)
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nounify. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nounify

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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “nounify,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nounify.

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