1. plural of lexicalization; instances in which a concept, meaning, or grammatical function is expressed as a word or lexical item in a language.
Usage: linguistics; formal
2. the process or result of converting a phrase, concept, or grammatical structure into a single lexical unit or word.
Usage: linguistics; formal

Examples

• The lexicalizations of color terms vary significantly across different languages.
• Linguists study lexicalizations to understand how languages encode meaning.
• English has several lexicalizations for concepts that other languages express through phrases.
• The lexicalizations of kinship relations differ between cultures and their respective languages.
• Researchers examined the lexicalizations of emotional states in the corpus.
• Compound words are often the result of lexicalizations of multi-word expressions.