Abstract noun can be defined as “a noun denoting an idea, quality, or state rather than a concrete object.”
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“An abstract noun refers to states, events, concepts, feelings, qualities, etc., that have no physical existence.”
Abstract noun is the noun which exists in our mind only and we cannot recognize them through our senses such as relationships, qualities, ideas, theories, freedom, idea, happiness, music, conditions, states of being, fields of inquiry, like, etc.
Abstract noun is a noun which names things that are not concrete (means do not have physical existence) and cannot be detected through sense organs. We cannot taste, see, smell, hear it, or touch them. Abstract nouns can be countable (such as a joke, an hour, a noise, a meeting, a quantity) and uncountable (such as fear, courage, news, happiness, training, etc).
Abstract nouns can be experienced in our every day life in various situations such as love, anger, fear, joy, excitement (including other emotions), courage, cowardice, bravery (including other states), desire, uncertainty, creativity (including other innate feelings), etc.
Here are some sentences having abstract noun which help you to understand the use of abstract noun in the sentence:
We have provided below various examples of common abstract nouns under different categories such as:
Common abstract nouns showing emotions or feelings: adoration, amazement, apprehension, clarity, anger, anxiety, delight, disbelief, excitement, fascination, despair, disappointment, friendship, grief, hate, happiness, helpfulness, misery, love, joy, pleasure, helplessness, infatuation, pain, power, relaxation, pride, satisfaction, romance, sorrow, silliness, relief, sadness, tiredness, weariness, worry, strength, surprise, peace, sympathy, wariness, uncertainty, etc.
Common abstract nouns showing human qualities and characteristics: beauty, evil, ego, envy, elegance, enthusiasm, bravery, calm, coldness, courage, charity, curiosity, dedication, brilliance, brutality, compassion, determination, contentment, confidence, fear, honesty, generosity, honor, goodness, graciousness, hatred, humor, humility, hope, insanity, jealousy, loyalty, kindness, maturity, integrity, intelligence, patience, perseverance, tolerance, sophistication, sensitivity, sympathy, stupidity, sanity, self-control, success, deceit, skill, beauty, pain, brilliance, misery, talent, weakness, warmth, wisdom, trust, wit, etc.
Common abstract nouns showing movements or events: progress, trouble, education, friendship, leisure, hospitality, relaxation, etc.
Other examples of common abstract nouns: communication, ability, awe, chaos, adventure, artistry, belief, comfort, consideration, death, defeat, crime, culture, customer service, deceit, democracy, dexterity, dreams, disquiet, disturbance, dictatorship, energy, failure, faithfulness, faithlessness, enhancement, faith, frailty, fragility, forgiveness, favoritism, hearsay, grace, freedom, gossip, hurt, homelessness, idea, impression, imagination, idiosyncrasy, improvement, knowledge, information, inflation, justice, laughter, luxury, law, liberty, luck, loss, motivation, life, movement, memory, mercy, need, parenthood, patriotism, opportunism, opinion, omen, opportunity, peace, principle, poverty, peculiarity, reality, redemption, refreshment, slavery, shock, riches, service, rumor, skill, sleep, sparkle, speculation, speed, thought, submission, strictness, success, unemployment, thrill, truth, unreality, wealth, victory, etc.
Here you can learn about how to get abstract nouns from nouns, verbs or adjectives by adding some suffix at the end of words. Words given in the bracket are abstract nouns.
Derive abstract noun from noun: brother (brotherhood), mother (motherhood), child (childhood), member (membership), man (manhood), friend (friendship), king (kingship), scholar (scholarship), neighbor (neighborhood), leader (leadership), etc.
Derive abstract noun from adjective: able (ability), kind (kindness), wide (width), angry (anger), unique (uniqueness), long (length), great (greatness), beautiful (beauty), brave (bravery), different (difference), strong (strength), thirsty (thirst), new (newness), honest (honesty), envious (envy), weak (weakness), happy (happiness), hungry (hunger), wise (wisdom), difficult (difficulty), etc.
Derive abstract noun from verb: act (action), speak (speech), know (knowledge), die (death), appear (appearance), behave (behavior), lose (loss), please (pleasure), think (thought), believe (belief), invite (invitation), marry (marriage), do (deed), permit (permission), employ (employment), refuse (refusal), free (freedom), sell (sale), grow (growth), judge (judgement), treat (treatment), laugh (laughter), etc.
1 )Abstract Nouns Exercises for You
We have provided below some abstract noun exercises in order to help you to enhance your skill and knowledge about abstract noun. You need to get detail information about abstract noun provided above and check your skill through following exercises. Select correct abstract nouns from following sentences and match with the given answer to be sure:
Answers: 1 – Adoration, 2 – Apprehension, 3 – clarity, 4 – Anger, 5 – anxiety, 6 – delight, 7 – Excitement, 8 – disappointment, 9 – friendship, 10 – hate, 11 – Happiness, 12 – love, 13 – joy, 14 – helplessness, 15 – pain, 16 – Power, 17 – relaxation, 18 – sorrow, 19 – relief, 20 – weakness, 21 – worry, 22 – strength, 23 – surprise, 24 – sympathy, 25 – uncertainty
2) Abstract Nouns Exercises for You
We have provided below some words, you need to make abstract noun using following words:
Answer: bitterness, strength, width, decency, humility, length, vacancy, cruelty, youth, sweetness, prudence, darkness, wisdom, goodness, bravery, vanity, humanity, ability, greatness, childhood, pleasure, treatment, brotherhood, scholarship, leadership, speech, thought, marriage, laughter, honesty, ignorance, pride, freedom, novelty, sanity, justice, poverty.
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