Technical term for the Noun version of an adjective and vice versa?

Given (as an example) an adjective form “liable” and the noun form “liability”, what is the technical term (if any) that describes the relationships mapping one to the other?

What are some other examples

  • of available (j) & availability
  • (n) red (j) & redness
  • (n) culpable (j) & culpability

(n) The closest thing I could find was “derivationally related form”. If not, what an id.

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available (adj) & availability (noun)

red or blue (adj) &

redness (noun) culpable or culpability

(noun) The usual term is ‘de-adjectival noun’ for nouns formed this way.

Information about the process of nationalisation.

The process is called “nominalisation”.

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available (adj) & availability (noun)

red or blue (adj) &

redness (noun) culpable or culpability

(noun) The usual term is ‘de-adjectival noun’ for nouns formed this way.

Information about the process of nationalisation.

The process is called “nominalisation”.

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available (adj) & availability (noun)

red or blue (adj) &

redness (noun) culpable or culpability

(noun) The usual term is ‘de-adjectival noun’ for nouns formed this way.

Information about the process of nationalisation.

The process is called “nominalisation”.

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A cognate is means used in linguistics.

Continuation: words having the same pronunciation as another; from the same original word or origin. The cognate adjective

for culpability is culpable. If you can add another adjective for availability or availability you could say, “Compact and availability are cognates.” “From

your view, what is the truth?

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