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Abstract nouns are those nouns that refer to things that cannot be perceived with the senses but are created and understood by thought or imagination. For example: justice, hunger, health, truth.
Abstract nouns, then, refer to ideas or feelings that correspond to notions or concepts that inhabit our thoughts and often have to do with the imagination.
Concrete nouns differ from abstract nouns by having a tangible character that is perceived by the senses. For example: house, car, table.
Although this does not seem to be a too rigorous differentiation, school texts maintain the tradition of defining nouns that can be captured by some of the senses that human beings have as concrete, and of calling abstract those that are conceived through processes cognitive such as imagination, emotion or thought.
- It can help you: Sentences with abstract nouns
Examples of abstract nouns
| beauty | skepticism | nostalgia |
| Justice | hope | temptation |
| nation | spirituality | infinite |
| poverty | hungry | arrogance |
| gluttony | honesty | fellowship |
| terror | imagination | faith |
| resentment | obsession | sweetness |
| sweetie | passion | bitterness |
| truth | peace | war |
| anxiety | sloth | Rage |
| creativity | poverty | sound |
| hope | purity | hobby |
| vitality | respect | lust |
| religion | Health | wealth |
| passion | loneliness | hardness |
| cunning | piety | rudeness |
| bliss | evil | summer |
| ugliness | fear | autumn |
| virtue | Justice | winter |
| honesty | injustice | spring |
| intelligence | ingenuity | abundance |
| thought | go to | shortage |
| reasoning | power | contradiction |
| abuse | Health | diversity |
| affected | solidarity | biodiversity |
| joy | resentment | movement |
| ambition | temperance | acceptance |
| love | fear | performance |
| friendship | terror | anxiety |
| hate | weather | nobility |
| pain | drama | wisdom |
| sweetie | truth | serenity |
| certainty | luck | revenge |
| charisma | virtue | tenderness |
| happy | courage | responsibility |
| happiness | idiocy | nation |
| belief | childhood | homeland |
| wish | lie | ceremony |
| dogma | science | ritual |
| avarice | soul | greenery |
| empathy | quality | fatness |
| ego | greed | height |
| yearning | admiration | esteem |
- It can help you: Types of nouns
How do abstract nouns arise?
These nouns are formed, in some cases from the incorporation of a suffix to a verb, an adjective or a noun: the suffixes -dad Y -gumindicate "quality of" when added to an adjective. Thus, we have the abstract noun generosity (the quality of being generous), freedom (quality of being free) and depth (quality of being deep).
As for the derivatives of verbs, the suffix that is usually added is -ción: imagination comes from imagining as well aseducation comes from educating.
However, many other abstract nouns do not have any suffix or come from another word: such is the case with fear, love, pain, value, faith Y calm, sorry.
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- What are the concrete nouns?
- Sentences with abstract and concrete nouns
- Sentences with common nouns
- Sentences with nouns (all)
