Countification

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The conversion of a noncountable noun to a countable noun form. rare, uncountable

    "1969, The Yugoslav Serbo-Croatian-English Contrastive Project With some mass and abstract nouns, "countification" is accompanied by a shift of meaning: paper (SC papir) vs. a paper (SC novine, dokument)..."

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"1969, The Yugoslav Serbo-Croatian-English Contrastive Project With some mass and abstract nouns, "countification" is accompanied by a shift of meaning: paper (SC papir) vs. a paper (SC novine, dokument)..."

Etymology

From count + -ification.

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