Creating Nouns from Adjectives

Converting adjectives to nouns involves using suffixes (like "ness", "ty", "ance", "ence") or modifying the word form.

Honest → Honesty

Kind → Kindness

Cruel → Cruelty

Calm → Calmness

Sad → Sadness

Active → Activity

Creative → Creativity

Sincere → Sincerity

Cheerful → Cheerfulness

Bitter → Bitterness

Sensitive → Sensitivity

Great → Greatness

endure → endurance

persist → persistence

signify → significance

confide → confidence

maintain → maintenance

abhor → abhorrence

These nouns belong to the category of abstract nouns. Abstract nouns represent intangible concepts, ideas, qualities, or states that cannot be perceived with the five senses. They describe things that exist in thought or as an idea but do not have a physical existence.