Common Noun Suffixes in English

-acy: state or quality

For examples: 

• accuracy, conspiracy, intimacy...

-al: act or process of

For examples: 

• refusal, arrival, burial, deferral...

-ance, -ence: state or quality of

For examples: 

• reliance, insistence...

-dom: state or place of being

For examples: 

• freedom, boredom, kingdom...

-er, -or: one who

For examples: 

• teacher, worker, director...

-ty: quality of

For examples: 

• cruelty, safety...

-ship: position held

For examples: 

• fellowship, friendship, partnership...

-sion, -tion: state of being

For examples: 

• complication, reduction, population, complexion...

-ing: an act or process, a product or result

For examples: 

• drawing, playing...

-logy: study of

For examples: 

• technology, pathology...

-ment: result, action, state or condition

For examples: 

• amazement, disappointment, parliament...

-ist: one who performs, plays, or operates

For examples: 

• violinist, Physicist...

-ity: quality, condition, degree

For examples: 

• flexibility, sensitivity...

-hood: state or condition, instance, or state of characters

For examples: 

• brotherhood, motherhood, childhood...

-ism: an act, theory, belief or doctrine

For examples: 

• journalism, Marxism...

-ness: a state, quality, or condition

For examples: 

• happiness, goodness, readiness...

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