mass noun

noun Grammar.

a noun, as water, electricity, or happiness, that typically refers to an indefinitely divisible substance or an abstract notion, and that in English cannot be used, in such a sense, with the indefinite article or in the plural.
Also called noncount noun, uncountable noun, uncount noun.

Origin of mass noun

First recorded in 1930–35

Words nearby mass noun

mass media, mass medium, mass meeting, mass merchandiser, mass movement, mass noun, mass number, mass observation, mass peristalsis, mass production, mass psychogenic illness

British Dictionary definitions for mass noun

mass noun

noun

a noun that refers to an extended substance rather than to each of a set of isolable objects, as, for example, water as opposed to lake. In English when used indefinitely they are characteristically preceded by some rather than a or an; they do not have normal plural forms Compare count noun