Abhorrence vs Null - What's the difference?
abhorrence | null |
Extreme aversion or detestation; the feeling of utter dislike or loathing.
* {{quote-book
, year=1818
, author=Mary Shelley
, title=Frankenstein
, chapter=9
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, passage=My abhorrence of this fiend cannot be conceived.}}
(obsolete, historical) An expression of abhorrence, in particular any of the parliamentary addresses dictated towards Charles II.
A person or thing that is loathsome; a detested thing.
A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
Something that has no force or meaning.
(computing) the ASCII or Unicode character (), represented by a zero value, that indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
(computing) the attribute of an entity that has no valid value.
One of the beads in nulled work.
(statistics) null hypothesis
Having no validity, "null and void"
insignificant
* 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
absent or non-existent
(mathematics) of the null set
(mathematics) of or comprising a value of precisely zero
(genetics, of a mutation) causing a complete loss of gene function, amorphic.
As nouns the difference between abhorrence and null
is that abhorrence is extreme aversion or detestation; the feeling of utter dislike or loathing while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.abhorrence
English
Noun
(en noun)References
null
English
Noun
(en noun)- (Francis Bacon)
- Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
Adjective
(en adjective)- In proportion as we descend the social scale our snobbishness fastens on to mere nothings which are perhaps no more null than the distinctions observed by the aristocracy, but, being more obscure, more peculiar to the individual, take us more by surprise.