English has a few suffixes that can make abstract nouns out of adjectives: There’s the relatively rare –cy, which turns fluent into fluency and idiot into idiocy. There’s the more common –ty or –ity ...

IN everything we do involving other people, we make use of communication in some form. Of the different forms of communication, language – either spoken or written – is the most common. We use words ...

THE word ‘fidelity’ (from Latin fides) is synonymous with faith. Fidelity and faith are examples of abstract nouns, which describe emotions, ideas, concepts; in fact, anything that is not physically ...