nominalize

• POS: Verb (transitive)
• HYPHEN: nom=i=nal=ize

CIDE DICTIONARY

nominalize, v. t. 

 To convert into a noun; as, a nominalized sentence; a nominalized adjective or verb.  [1913 Webster]
"In a sentence of the form:
“That Kennedy would have been a great president if he had not been assassinated is one of the enduring myths of the Camelot conceit.“
the sentence “Kennedy would have been a great president if he had not been assassinated” has been nominalized by the introductory “that”."  [PJC]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

nominalize, v.tr. (also -ise) form a noun from (a verb, adjective, etc.), e.g. output, truth, from put out, true.

Derivative

nominalization n.