Concrete and Abstract Nouns

Concrete and Abstract

Concrete nouns are those that can be experienced with one of the five senses: taste, touch, smell, sound, and sight.  Take the noun tree. A tree can be felt, touched, seen, heard, and smelled. Truck is a concrete noun also, because I can feel it and see it. Contrasting, nouns that are abstract are not able to be physically experienced: examples are sympathy, grief, love, hate.

Walking through the dark forest, my heart pounded in fear.

·         Forest is concrete, because I can see, touch, and smell a forest.

·         Heart is a concrete, because I can feel it pounding against my chest.

·         Fear would be an abstract noun, because I cannot physically experience fear.