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lexicalization

About 0.06 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun The act or process of lexicalizing.
  2. noun Something lexicalized: a word, collocation, or symbol that has been lexicalized.

Similar words

congruent literalization laryngealization explicitization latinization syntacticization semanticization nominalization formalization explicitisation

Often followed by

of patterns and is in process as pattern processes

Word family

lexicalizations lexicalize lexicalized lexicalizes lexicalizing

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