ABSTRACT NOUN LIST
BY – PARNEET KAUR
Normally, Nouns with the following suffixes
are abstract nouns:
-tion
-hood
-ism
-age
-ity
-ability
-ment
-ence
-ness
-ship
-ance
-acy
abstract noun from adjective
• Angry – Anger
• Anxious – Anxiety
• Beautiful – Beauty
• Bitter – Bitterness
• Brave – Bravery
• Broad – Breadth
• Chaotic – Chaos
• Compassionate – Compassion
• Courageous – Courage
• Courageous – Courage
• Curious – Curiosity
• Dark – Darkness
• Deceitful – Deceit
• Deep – Depth
• Evil – Evil
• False – Falsehood
• Generous – Generosity
• Great – Greatness
• High – Height
• Honest – Honesty
• Hot – Heat
• Humble – Humility
• Humorous – Humor
• Imaginative – Imagination
• Intelligent – Intelligence
• Jealous – Jealousy
• Joyful – Joy
• Just – Justice
• Long – Length
• Loyal – Loyalty
• Lucky – Luck
• Luxurious – Luxury
• Mature – Maturity
• Opinionated – Opinion
• Painful – Pain
• Peculiar – Peculiarity
• Poor – Poverty
• Proud – Pride
• Prudent – Prudence
• Responsible – Responsibility
• Romantic – Romance
• Sane – Sanity
• Sensitive – Sensitivity
• Short – Shortness
• Sole – Solitude
• Sorrowful – Sorrow
• Strong – Strength
• Stupid – Stupidity
• Successful – Success
• Sympathetic – Sympathy
• Tolerant – Tolerance
• True – Truth
• Vain – Vanity
• Warm – Warmth
• Wide – Width
• Wise – Wisdom
• Witty – Wit
• Young – Youth
• Verb……Abstract Noun
1. Advise……advice
2. Admit……admission
3. Arrive……arrival
4. Agree……agreement
5. Behave ……behaviour
6. Believe……belief
7. Choose……choice
8. Conceal……concealment
9. Defend……defence
10. Depart……departure
• Die……death
12. Expect……expectation
13. Enter……entrance
14. Fail……failure
15. Free……freedom
16. Hate……hatred
17. Judge……judgment
18. Laugh……laughter
19. Live……life
20. Move……motion
• 1. Neglect……negligence
22. Obey……obedience
23. Permit……permission
24. Please……pleasure
25. Protect……protection
26. Punish……punishment
27. Relieve……relief
28. See……sight
29. Serve……service
30. Succeed……success
• Seize……seizure
32. Think……thought
33. Unite…… unity
34. Unite……union
35. Warm……warmth
• Common Noun – Abstract Noun
• Agent – Agency
• Author – Authorship
• Bankrupt – Bankruptcy
• Beggar – Beggary
• Bond – Bondage
• Boy – Boyhood
• Brother – Brotherhood
• Captain – Captaincy
• Child – Childhood
• Coward – Cowardice
• Friend – Friendship
• Glutton – Gluttony
• Hero – Heroism
• Infant – Infancy
• King – Kingdom
• Leader Leadership
• Man – Manhood
• Member – Membership
• Mother – Motherhood
• Neighbor – Neighborhood
• Owner – Ownership
• Patriot – Patriotism
• Pilgrim – Pilgrimage
• Pirate – Piracy
• Priest – Priesthood
• Rascal – Rascality
• Regent – Regency
• Rogue – Roguery
• Scholar – Scholarship
• Slave – Slavery
• Thief – Theft
• Thief – Thieving
• Woman – Womanhood
