Mass nounとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

mass noun (plural mass nouns)

1. A common noun that normally cannot be counted.

   Synonyms: material noun, non-count noun, uncountable noun

   Antonyms: countable noun, count noun

使用する際の注意点

• 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 varietal (“Scotch and Canadian whiskies”) or to denote a serving (“please bring us two whiskies”).
• Conversely many count nouns can also be used as mass nouns.

参考

参照

• “mass noun”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.