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Abstract Noun: List of 150 Common Abstract Nouns in English

Abstract Noun: List of 150 Common Abstract Nouns in English

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Abstract Noun! This lesson provides a list of 150 common abstract nouns in English with ESL pictures and example sentences to help you broaden your English vocabulary.

Abstract Noun

List of 150 common abstract nouns in English.

  • Ability
  • Generation
  • Cleverness
  • Generosity
  • Confidence
  • Goal
  • Horror
  • Goodness
  • Advantage
  • Annoyance
  • Anxiety
  • Appetite
  • Apprehension
  • Awareness
  • Awe
  • Beauty
  • Communication
  • Belief
  • Adventure
  • Amazement
  • Anger
  • Bravery
  • Brilliance
  • Calm
  • Care
  • Chaos
  • Adoration
  • Charity
  • Childhood
  • Confusion
  • Clarity
  • Coldness
  • Comfort
  • Compassion
  • Education
  • Ego
  • Elegance
  • Envy
  • Courage

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Abstract Noun: List of 150 Common Abstract Nouns in English

  • Crime
  • Curiosity
  • Customer service
  • Death
  • Deceit
  • Delay
  • Delight
  • Determination
  • Disappointment
  • Disquiet
  • Disregard
  • Disturbance
  • Divorce
  • Dream
  • Evil
  • Failure
  • Faith
  • Fascination
  • Fear
  • Fiction
  • Fragility
  • Freedom
  • Hurt
  • Idea
  • Infancy
  • Friendship
  • Gain
  • Gossip
  • Dedication
  • Defeat
  • Growth
  • Happiness
  • Hate
  • Hatred
  • Hope
  • Disbelief
  • Dishonesty
  • Infatuation
  • Life
  • Loneliness
  • Inflation
  • Insanity
  • Mercy
  • Movement
  • Music
  • Opinion
  • Opportunity
  • Intelligence
  • Irritation
  • Joy
  • Justice
  • Kindness
  • Laughter
  • Law
  • Liberty
  • Lie
  • Loss
  • Love
  • Luck
  • Luxury
  • Maturity
  • Pain
  • Nap
  • Need
  • Patience
  • Peace
  • Peculiarity
  • Union
  • Wariness

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Abstract Noun: List of 150 Common Abstract Nouns in English

  • Pleasure
  • Poverty
  • Power
  • Pride
  • Riches
  • Right
  • Sacrifice
  • Principle
  • Reality
  • Trend
  • Trust
  • Uncertainty
  • Relaxation
  • Relief
  • Religion
  • Speed
  • Weakness
  • Wealth
  • Restoration
  • Sanity
  • Success
  • Surprise
  • Talent
  • Thrill
  • Satisfaction
  • Worry
  • Sensitivity
  • Service
  • Shock
  • Silliness
  • Skill
  • Sleep
  • Tiredness
  • Tolerance
  • Unreality
  • Victory
  • Unemployment
  • Warmth
  • Wit
  • Sorrow
  • Wisdom
  • Strength

Abstract Nouns | Examples

  • Consumption of alcohol impairs your ability to drive a car or operate machinery.
  • Manufacturers are working on a new generation of cheaper digital radios.
  • Most missiles with pretensions to cleverness are brighter than a laser-guided bomb, but not as clever as a Tomahawk.
  • There are stories about his generosity, the massive amounts of money he gave to charities.
  • She felt nervous, increasingly lacking in confidence about herself.
  • To me, they hide in the depths of your soul; be a distant dream, every dream will exceed your goal.
  • She seemed to personify goodness and nobility.
  •  Students from a privileged background have an advantage at university.
  • The noisy traffic is a continual annoyance to the citizens.
  • Children normally feel a lot of anxiety about their first day at school.
  •  I love reading: I have an insatiable appetite for vicarious experience.
  • It’s normal to feel a little apprehension before starting a new job.
  • The campaign was designed to increase public awareness of the problem.
  • The love of beauty is an essential part of all healthy human nature.
  • He looked at me with a mixture of amazement and horror.
  • Even if the boy is of uncommon brilliance, he should not have been praised to the skies.
  • The charity will be taking food and essential supplies to six refugee camps.
  • There is a question mark over the future of geriatric care.
  • We were thrown into confusion by the news.
  •  I felt there was a certain coldness in her manner.
  • A desperate tiredness set in after hours of anxious waiting.
  • The organization promotes racial tolerance and unity in diversity.
  • There was an air of unreality about the visit, as if I’d stepped into another world for two weeks.
  • I will make you happy when you are depressed. i will make you delighted when you are in great sorrow!
  • Her unwillingness to answer questions undermined the strength of her position.
  • There is no direct reference to her own childhood in the novel.
  • The old people are treated with great compassion.
  • Her angry words jolted him out of the belief that she loved him.
  • You’ll feel better after a good night’s sleep.
  • Ramona spoke with warmth when she recollected the doctor who used to be at the county hospital.
  • Fortune often rewards with interest those that have patience to wait for her.
  • Those who foolishly seek power by riding on the back of the tiger and up inside.

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Abstract Noun: List of 150 Common Abstract Nouns in English

tanvai Kumari

Monday 4th of January 2021

hi where do you live?please answer

bella jacobson

Thursday 3rd of December 2020

good-great

manisha

Saturday 12th of September 2020

secure

Akanksha kumari

Sunday 23rd of August 2020

Kind- kindness

tanvai Kumari

Monday 4th of January 2021

hi please answer ok where do you live?please please answer ok