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▶ No.12874>>12875 >>12932 [Watch Thread][Show All Posts]

Not much of a /lit/ person, and I have an embarrassing itch need for a (complete, or nearly so) list of abstract nouns in the English language, as well as lists of other categories of words if possible. I have been unable to find anything via search engines. Can anyone point me to a good resource?

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▶ No.12875>>12876 >>12878

>>12874 (OP)

abstract as in "intergrity", "treachery", "love" abd all that?

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▶ No.12876

>>12875

*and

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▶ No.12878>>12880

>>12875

Yep

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▶ No.12880>>12884

>>12878

why do you need it?

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▶ No.12884>>12885

>>12880

They're good for jotting down metaphors so I can compact complex situations in my life into smaller mouthfuls and vice versa, write poetry for no audience other than myself and to encourage lucid dreams. Thinking of writing a little python or bash script to spit out words for me to try to make sentences out of.

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▶ No.12885>>12886 >>12923

>>12884

An example of the sentences I write could be "Her flock of grievances took off and flew away as she lost herself looking up at the night sky", or "I pummeled my laziness to lose that body fat."

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▶ No.12886

>>12885

I end up recycling abstract nouns or using too many of the same kind (for example, a lot of emotions) and it all feels like shit too quickly and I give up. I need a diverse set so that my brain doesn't get tired of the tedium of the tedium of coming up with abstract objects while I try to focus on another task, one that invokes more thought.

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▶ No.12915>>12921

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autism, the thread

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▶ No.12921

>>12915

Not even autism I'd say, just pleb.

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▶ No.12923>>12928 >>12932

>>12885

your readers are going to get soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo TIRED reading shit like that

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▶ No.12928

>>12923

this. or at least i would.

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▶ No.12932>>12940 >>13296

>>12923

Some day I will be a famous author and your children and grandchildren will have to read my books in high school.

>>12874 (OP)

Anyways, I guess looking for a list of abstract nouns is pretty autistic around here. Regardless, I found http://www.desiquintans.com/downloads/nounlist/nounlist.txt, currently editing it for abstract nouns, maybe I'll upload it somewhere when I'm done.

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▶ No.12940

>>12932

>Some day I will be a famous author and your children and grandchildren will have to read my books in high school.

ok, i'll remember your name…anonymous, right?

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▶ No.13291>>13301

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For once, OP is not a faggot. This is actually a really interesting topic.

Abstract nouns are the result of what is known in linguistics as normalization. This is when a word which is not a noun, is expressed as a noun.

There are different ways normalization can occur.

In the case of the verb love, it can be normalized without morphological transformation. Love (verb) -> Love (abstract noun).

The verbs legalize and sublimate normalize to legalization and sublimation. This is an example of a common and recognizable transformation in English for verbs: -e -> -ation.

The most common and recognizable normalization morphological transformation pattern for adjectives on the other hand is the suffixation of the morpheme -ness, such as in cuteness .

There are also lots of irregular normalized nouns, like integrity, treachery, grief etc.

So I guess you could just look up a complete list of adjectives, verbs and adverbs, and normalize them.

Here is a website with a list of adjectives to start:

http://adjectivesstarting.com/

You could probably even find or write a python script that:

A. Receives a verb, adjective, or adverb.

B. Identifies the necesary morpological transformation.

C. Outputs the abstract noun.

Then you would just have to give the program the lists of adjectives, verbs and adverbs as input, and then you would have your complete list of abstract nouns.

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▶ No.13296

>>12932

Those look like the stacked metaphors that Orwell denounced. Please don't write like that.

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▶ No.13301>>13310

>>13291

Smoking is not moe! Don't do that!

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>>13301

I've been getting that a lot.

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