English

Noun

mass noun ‎(plural mass nouns)

1. A noun that normally cannot be counted.

Usage notes

• In English, mass nouns, such as information and money, may have no plural form (for example, *informations is invalid in most varieties of English), and they are not used with the indefinite article or numbers in almost all of their senses.
• Many mass nouns, such as whisky, can also be count nouns when they refer to a variety (“Scotch and Canadian whiskies”) or to denote a serving (“please bring us two whiskies”).
• Conversely many countable nouns can also be used as mass nouns.

  Buying into East Egg rather than West Egg gets you more house for the money.‎

Synonyms

• material noun
• non-count noun, uncountable noun

Antonyms

• countable noun, count noun

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