En lingüística, la composición es un procedimiento morfológico de las lenguas para crear neologismos, esto es, nuevas palabras. Consiste en coordinar dos o más lexemas o raíces, esto es, partes invariables de palabras, para formar una nueva que constituye una unidad semántica y sintáctica. Debe diferenciarse claramente de unidades fraseológicas tales como la colocación y no es ni unidad fraseológica, ni locución, ni lexía simple ni textual, ni enunciado fraseológico.

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In linguistics, a compound is a lexeme (less precisely, a word) that consists of more than one stem. Compounding, composition or nominal composition is the process of word formation that creates compound lexemes. That is, in familiar terms, compounding occurs when two or more words are joined to make one longer word. The meaning of the compound may be similar to or different from the meanings of its components in isolation. The component stems of a compound may be of the same part of speech—as in the case of the English word footpath, composed of the two nouns foot and path—or they may belong to different parts of speech, as in the case of the English word blackbird, composed of the adjective black and the noun bird. With very few exceptions, English compound words are stressed on their first component stem. The process occurs readily in North Germanic languages for different reasons. Words can be concatenated both to mean the same as the sum of two words (such as Pressekonferenz - German for press conference) or where an adjective and noun are compounded (e.g. hvidvinsglas - Danish for white wine glass). The addition of affix morphemes to words (such as suffixes or prefixes, as in employ -> employment) should not be confused with nominal composition.

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