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Uncountable vs Pity - What's the difference?

uncountable | pity |

As nouns the difference between uncountable and pity

is that uncountable is an uncountable noun while pity is a feeling of sympathy at the misfortune or suffering of someone or something.

As an adjective uncountable

is so many as to be incapable of being counted.

As a verb pity is

to feel pity for (someone or something).

As an interjection pity is

short form of what a pity.

uncountable

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (linguistics) An uncountable noun.

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • So many as to be incapable of being counted.
    • The reasons for our failure were as uncountable as the grains of sand on a beach.
  • (mathematics) Incapable of being put into one-to-one correspondence with the natural numbers or any subset thereof.
    • Cantor’s “diagonal proof” shows that the set of real numbers is uncountable .
  • (grammar, of a noun) Describes a meaning of a noun that cannot be used freely with numbers or the indefinite article, and which therefore takes no plural form. Example: information .
    • Many languages do not distinguish countable nouns from uncountable nouns.
    One meaning in law of the supposedly uncountable noun "information" is used in the plural and is countable.

    Antonyms

    * countable

    Hypernyms

    * (set theory) infinite

    Derived terms

    * uncountable noun * uncountable set * uncountably

    See also

    * (mathematics) infinite * (mathematics) innumerable * (linguistics) mass noun * (linguistics) singulare tantum *

    pity

    English

    Alternative forms

    * pitty (obsolete)

    Noun

  • (uncountable) A feeling of sympathy at the misfortune or suffering of someone or something.
  • * Bible, Proverbs xix. 17
    • He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the Lord.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Hehas no more pity in him than a dog.
  • *, Folio Society, 2006, p.5:
    • The most usuall way to appease those minds we have offendedis, by submission to move them to commiseration and pitty .
  • (countable) Something regrettable.
    • It's a pity you're feeling unwell because there's a party on tonight.
  • * Laurence Sterne
    • It was a thousand pities .
  • * Addison
    • What pity is it / That we can die but once to serve our country!
  • (obsolete) piety
    • (Wyclif)

    Synonyms

    * (mercy) ruth * (something regrettable) shame

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To feel pity for (someone or something).
  • * Bible, Psalms ciii. 13
    • Like as a father pitieth' his children, so the Lord ' pitieth them that fear him.
  • * 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , IV.11:
    • She lenger yet is like captiv'd to bee; / That even to thinke thereof it inly pitties mee.
  • * Book of Common Prayer
    • It pitieth them to see her in the dust.

    Interjection

  • Short form of what a pity.

    • Synonyms

    * shame, what a pity, what a shame

    Derived terms

    * piteous * pitiable * pitiful * self-pity * what a pity ----