Question

Confidence is abstract or concrete and countable or uncountable

Answer 1

confidence is uncountable

Answer 2

Explanation:

Concrete and Abstract Nouns

All nouns serve to name a person, place, or thing. Depending on whether they name a tangible or an intangible thing, nouns are classed as being either concrete or abstract.

What is a concrete noun?

Concrete nouns name people, places, animals, or things that are or were physically tangible—that is, they can or could be seen or touched, or else have some defining physical properties. For instance:

rocks

lake

countries

people

child

air

water

bread

Proper nouns are also usually concrete, as they describe unique people, places, or things.

Mary

The Queen

Africa

my MacBook

a Pepsi

What is an abstract noun?

Abstract nouns, as their name implies, name intangible things, such as concepts, ideas, feelings, characteristics, attributes, etc.—you cannot see or touch these kinds of things.

Here are some examples of abstract nouns:

love

hate

decency

conversation

emotion

aspiration

excitement

lethargy

Gerunds, verbs that end in “-ing” and function as nouns, are also abstract. For example:

running

swimming

jumping

reading

writing

loving

breathing

These all name actions as concepts. Actions themselves do not have any physical properties—they cannot be touched, held, seen, smelled, etc., only the people or things doing or receiving the actions can. Thus, a gerund will always function as an abstract noun.

Countable Nouns vs. Uncountable Nouns

Both concrete and abstract nouns can be either countable or uncountable, depending on what they name.

Countable Nouns

Countable nouns (also known as count nouns) are, as the name suggests, nouns that can be counted as individual units.

Concrete countable nouns

Many concrete nouns are countable. Consider the following, for example:

cup

ambulance

phone

person

dog

computer

doctor

Each of these can be considered as an individual, separable item, which means that we are able to count them with numbers—we can have one, two, five, 15, 100, and so on. We can also use them with the indefinite articles a and an (which signify a single person or thing) or with the plural form of the noun. For example: