Examples Of Concrete And Abstract Concepts

At school you might have learned that words are either abstract or concrete.

Examples of concrete and abstract concepts. A pear a grape a juicy pineapplethese are all concrete words because we can hold a pear in our hand taste a grape and smell a ripe pineapple. This is directly opposite to abstract terms which name things that are not available to the senses examples of concrete terms include spoon table velvet eye patch nose ring sinus mask green hot walking. These are just a few examples of non concrete words that are sensed. However that same mathematician might find concepts like value as used in political economy to be quite abstract.

Nouns such as chair or plate adjectives such as hot or red and gerunds such as walking. In contrast an abstract thinker will understand that this is a common phrase that is used to describe heavy rain. To some extent concrete and abstract are domain specificfor example for a mathematician concepts like exponent and equation are second nature and relatively concrete in their meaning. They are most commonly used in philosophy and semanticsabstract objects are sometimes called abstracta singabstractum and concrete objects are sometimes called concreta sing.

Love fear anger joy excitement and other emotions are abstract nouns. An example of concrete versus abstract thinking is a response to the phrase its raining cats and dogs a person who is thinking concretely will look up at the sky and expect to see cats and dogs falling from the sky. In metaphysics abstract and concrete are classifications that denote whether the object that a term describes has physical referents. Concrete concepts are objects events or things that can be sensed.

Courage bravery cowardice and other such states are abstract nouns. Desire creativity uncertainty and other innate feelings are abstract nouns.