How to become a master of Abstract Noun 2.0?

Abstract Noun

Abstract Nouns generally describe the name of any pace or person or anything in this universe. We can differentiate nouns in two ways, concrete nouns and Abstract nouns.

 Concrete nouns are those, we can perceive with our 5 sense organs.

Abstract nouns are those which we can’t perceive with our 5 sense organs. they can only be imagined.

What is Abstract Noun?

An abstract noun is the type of noun that cannot be felt with our 5 organs. We can only imagine and feel them in our imagination.

Simply, Abstract noun describes untouchable things. We can’t touch or see abstract nouns, unlike concrete nouns. 

Words like anger, love, laughter, loyalty, etc. we can’t see them or touch them as in case of a concrete noun like name of person or place we can touch them or can feel them.

Example of Abstract noun

As we already describe what an Abstract noun is, you can realize that these things are unable to feel with your 5 senses. You can’t touch, smell or see them.

To make it more clear let’s discuss with examples of different types of Abstract nouns.

Emotions/ Feelings

Words that describe human emotion are cannot be seen or touched; we only can feel them through our imagination. They are called abstract nouns.

Here is the list of some abstract nouns showing emotion or feelings:

Anger

Anxiety

Depressed

Excitement

Grief

Helpful

Hate

Loyal

Infatuation

Joy

Love

Misery

Romance

Sorrow

Surprise

Uncertainty

Strength

Worry

Human Characteristics

Human characteristics like “ego”, “envy”, “jealousy” are matters of untouchable things. So, we can say they are abstract nouns.

Here is the list of some abstract nouns showing human characteristics :

Ego

Envy

Honesty

Beauty

Brave

Confidence

Fear

Honour

Wit

Weakness

Wisdom

Stupidity

Sympathy

Tolerance

Trust

Talent

Talent

Maturity.

Apart from those, we use some abstract nouns commonly which are not coming in the definition of human characteristics (personality) or feelings (emotion). They are called common abstract nouns.

Here is the list of some commonly used abstract nouns:

Some more examples of the Abstract Noun

Wealth

Victory

Truth

Success

Unemployment

Submission

Speed

Lucky

Luxury

Law

Liberty

Life

Information

Hurt

Grace

Freedom

Imagination

Improvement

After going through those nouns I’ve mentioned above, I hope you got a clear idea about Abstract nouns.

Apart from those, there are hundreds and thousands of abstract nouns that exist. I just use some most commonly used abstract nouns.  

Abstract nouns by adding the suffix

Did you know that you can create an Abstract noun even from a concrete noun? Yes, it’s possible.

By adding the suffix to the exact word. You can create abstract nouns from adjectives, verbs or concrete nouns by adding suffix with the original word.

 For example, pick up the word “child”. We know this is a concrete noun. Now add the suffix with the word to turn it into “childhood”.

Now let’s make an abstract noun from an adjective. Pick the adjective “angry”. By adding a suffix we can make it “anger”, an abstract noun.

To make it more clear here I’ve given some examples of formatted abstract nouns:

Abstract noun of

Child- Childhood

Brave- Bravery

Hate-hatred

True-truth

Proud-pride

Use of abstract nouns in sentences

We can use abstract nouns in sentences just like other nouns. We can use them exactly like a subject or object. They follow all the rules like capitalization or singular, plural (countable noun and uncountable noun) just like all other nouns. 

Countable Abstract Noun and uncountable Abstract Noun

As above mentioned abstract nouns also follow the rule of countable and uncountable nouns. But how can an untouchable thing also be countable or uncountable?

Yes, they can.

In certain cases abstract nouns are countable. Abstract nouns like “hope”, “dream”, and “success” are the best examples of countable abstract nouns.

“If a book about failure doesn’t sell, is it a success?”- Jerry Seinfeld

Here “success” is specified and it’s countable.

In some cases abstract nouns are uncountable. If any abstract noun has a broad meaning, it became uncountable.

“Love can heal any hardship”.

Here love is referring to as a general feeling; this can be counted as uncountable nouns.

Let’s have some examples to better understand:

1. People lost faith in humanity.
2. We shouldn’t laugh while others are trying hard.
3. She tried her best to control her anger.
4. Honesty is the key to peace.
5. Don’t underestimate your own strength. Each human has a good side and an evil side.
6. Ego is the next step of disaster.
7. John is helpful to everyone.
8. Loyalty is the key to success.
9. Her voice was full of anxiety.
10. Rahul is an wise guy.

More examples of abstract noun 

Kind- kindness

Leader- leadership

Courageous-courage

Peaceful- peace

Able- ability

Angry- anger

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