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'Darkness' on the other hand is not exclusively an uncountable noun (contrary to popular belief), as a selection of the results from a British National Corpus search for 'a darkness' show below: B1C 2033 And all you are like a darkness around it; BN3 534 If ever a baby brought tremendous joy...

People have found this text useful so I am repeating it here in this entirety with error fixed (there are several posts combined in it) Before I give you more detailed explanation I have to tell you that in dictionaries you can frequently find the type of the word: countable, uncountable, mass,...

Before I give you more detailed explanation I have to tell you that in dictionaries you can frequently find the type of the word: countable, uncountable, mass, abstract… However what is more important is to understand that the context is equally important. You can turn many words into abstract if...

I'll paste all what is written in the entry of ivory tower in Oxford English Dictionary. Looks like 'ivory tower' has been used as a common countable noun.ivory tower fails in this task it will be reduced to the status of an art pursued for art's sake by isolated groups of writers, segregated...