P. F. Strawson borrows "characterising expression" from H. P. Grice -- but does not return it.

mass: In contrast to count nouns or sortals, a mass term or noun cannot occur with a definite (“the water is warm”) or indefinite article (“Some water is not drinkable.”) They do not refer distributively and provide no principle of countability. While a count noun is associated with quantifiers such as many and few, a mass noun is associated with quantifiers such as “much” and “little.” Examples of mass nouns are water, gold, music, intelligence, and information. Many abstract mass nouns are closely related to adjectives, for instance intelligence–intelligent or virtue– virtuous. There are various alternative terms for mass nouns. P. F. Strawson, borrowing from H. P. Grice, calls a mass noun a “characterizing” expression; Goodman refers to them as collective predicates, and Quine calls them partitive terms or bulk terms.