Language/English/Grammar/Mass-noun

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A mass noun is a noun (like advice, bread, knowledge, luck, and work) that names things which, when used in English, generally cannot be counted. Many abstract nouns are uncountable, but not all uncountable nouns are abstract. The contrasting term is known as a count noun.

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