English has a few suffixes that can make abstract nouns out of adjectives: There’s the relatively rare –cy, which turns fluent into fluency and idiot into idiocy. There’s the more common –ty or –ity ...

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Concrete nouns signify things, either in the real or imagined world. It’s usually possible to detect a concrete noun with one of the five senses. Abstract nouns refer to concepts and so cannot be ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. "Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about," said 20th-century linguist Benjamin Lee Whorf. It creates a ...

English has a few suffixes that can make abstract nouns out of adjectives. There's the relatively rare –cy, which turns fluent into fluency and idiot into idiocy, and there's the more common –ty or ...