Ageist vs Null - What's the difference?
ageist | null |
Unfairly discriminatory against someone based on their age.
A person who behaves in an ageist manner.
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 ageist and null
is that ageist is a person who behaves in an ageist manner while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As an adjective ageist
is unfairly discriminatory against someone based on their age.ageist
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Upon hearing that his employer would soon require yearly physical examinations and vision screening, my father exclaimed that the policy was ageist .
- Even though she had succeeded in the phone interview, when the ageist employer learned that the candidate was only 18 years old, she became hesitant.
Noun
(en noun)- He didn’t like to think of himself as an ageist , but he had to admit that he hadn’t considered the needs of some of the more elderly participants.
See also
* ableist * bigot * bigotry * chauvinism * chauvinist * discrimination * heterosexist * homophobe * homophobic * -ist * racist * sizeist * veganistnull
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.