(of a noun) not countable.
Example sentencesExamples
- To us they seem like non-count nouns for naming types of stuff.
- But of course, to enforce it you have to be able to distinguish count from non-count nouns.
- The Danish philologist Otto Jespersen expounded the concept of count and non-count nouns in an unpublished lecture to the Copenhagen Academy of Sciences in 1911.
- Lot here is not used in any literal sense; it's what's called a non-count number-transparent quantificational noun.
- Now, vanity is a non-count noun, only very rarely used in the plural.