Mass Noun Examples

A mass noun, also known as an uncountable noun, refers to something that cannot be counted individually. These nouns typically do not have a plural form and are often used to refer to substances, concepts, or collective quantities.

Here are examples of common mass nouns:

Substances

  • Air
  • Blood
  • Bread
  • Butter
  • Cheese
  • Clay
  • Cloth
  • Coal
  • Coffee
  • Cotton
  • Cream
  • Dirt
  • Dust
  • Flour
  • Food
  • Gasoline
  • Glass
  • Glue
  • Gold
  • Gravel
  • Ice
  • Iron
  • Juice
  • Leather
  • Luggage
  • Milk
  • Oil
  • Oxygen
  • Paper
  • Plastic

Abstract Concepts

  • Advice
  • Anger
  • Beauty
  • Bravery
  • Chaos
  • Confidence
  • Courage
  • Creativity
  • Curiosity
  • Education
  • Energy
  • Entertainment
  • Faith
  • Fear
  • Freedom
  • Happiness
  • Honesty
  • Hope
  • Humility
  • Information
  • Intelligence
  • Joy
  • Knowledge
  • Laughter
  • Love
  • Luck
  • Patience
  • Peace
  • Poverty
  • Power

Collective Quantities

  • Baggage
  • Bedding
  • Clothing
  • Cutlery
  • Equipment
  • Furniture
  • Garbage
  • Hardware
  • Homework
  • Housework
  • Jewelry
  • Machinery
  • Mail
  • Money
  • Music
  • News
  • Pollution
  • Produce
  • Research
  • Scenery
  • Software
  • Spaghetti
  • Sugar
  • Thunder
  • Traffic
  • Transportation
  • Trash
  • Vocabulary
  • Water
  • Wealth

Natural Elements

  • Ash
  • Chalk
  • Fog
  • Hail
  • Heat
  • Humidity
  • Light
  • Lightning
  • Mud
  • Rain
  • Rock
  • Sand
  • Sleet
  • Smoke
  • Snow
  • Soil
  • Steam
  • Starlight
  • Stone
  • Sunshine
  • Thunder
  • Vapor
  • Warmth
  • Water
  • Wind
  • Wood
  • Wool
  • Yoghurt
  • Zinc