Abstract Nouns formed from Common Nouns :
Abstract Nouns speak of the condition of quality, state or action, apart from anything possessing the quality, etc. Abstract Nouns speak about ideas or concepts or qualities or state or condition which could not be seen or experienced. We could not see, hear, touch, taste or smell these concepts. We could only feel them or conceptualize them.
She has beauty. Here the word SHE is a noun where as BEAUTY is Abstract Noun.
Quality — Cleverness, height, humility, roguery, colour….
State — Poverty, manhood, bondage, pleasure, youth….
Action — Laughter, movement, flight, choice, revenge…..
Abstract Nouns formed from Verbs, adjectives, Common Nouns
Common Noun….Abstract Noun
1. Agent….Agency
2. Author….Authorship/Authority
3. Bankrupt….Bankruptcy
4. Beggar….Beggary
5. Bond….Bondage
6. Boy….Boyhood
7. Brother Brotherhood
8. Captain….Captaincy
9. Captain….Captainship
10. Child….Childhood
11. Common….Abstract
12. Coward….Cowardice
13. Friend….Friendliness
14. Friend….Friendship
15. Glutton….Gluttony
16. Hero….Heroism
17. Infant….Infancy
18. King…. Kingship
19. King….Kingdom
20. Leader Leadership
21. Man…. Mankind
22. Man…. Manhood
23. Member ….Membership
24. Mother….Motherhood
25. Neighbor Neighborhood
26. Owner….Ownership
27. Patriot….Patriotism
28. Pilgrim….Pilgrimage
29. Pirate….Piracy
30. Priest….Priesthood
31. Rascal….Rascality
32. Regent….Regency
33. Rogue….Roguery
34. Scholar Scholarship
35. Slave….Slavery
36. Thief….Theft
37. Thief….Thieving
38. Woman….Womanhood
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- Classification of Nouns
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- Abstract Nouns of the same form as Verbs
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- Exceptional Masculine Nouns and Feminine Nouns
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- Foreign Feminine Nouns
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