Amazement vs Null - What's the difference?
amazement | null |
(uncountable) The condition of being amazed; overwhelming wonder, as from surprise, sudden fear, horror, or admiration; astonishment.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=9 (countable, archaic) A particular feeling of wonder, surprise, fear, or horror.
* 1682 , , The fiery tryal no strange thing , Samuel Sewell, Boston, p. 16,
* 1791 , "Character of the faithful Man," in Aphorisms concerning the Assurance of Faith , W. Young, Philadelphia, p. 60,
* 1853 , , Villette , ch. 41,
(countable, dated) Something which amazes.
* 1913 , , The Valley of the Moon , ch. 21,
* 1918 , , "The Urchin at the Zoo," in Mince Pie ,
(obsolete) Madness, frenzy.
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 amazement and null
is that amazement is (uncountable) the condition of being amazed; overwhelming wonder, as from surprise, sudden fear, horror, or admiration; astonishment while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.amazement
English
Noun
citation, passage=Eustace gaped at him in amazement . When his urbanity dropped away from him, as now, he had an innocence of expression which was almost infantile. It was as if the world had never touched him at all.}}
- Were believers thoroughly persuaded of what God meaneth, by these things, they would not be so liable to those frights and amazements which distract and disturb them.
- In the midst of ill rumours and amazements , his countenance changeth not.
- Certain points, crises, certain feelings, joys, griefs and amazements , when reviewed, must strike us as things wildered and whirling.
- So impossible did it seem that such an amazement of horse-flesh could ever be hers.
- I believe the Urchin showed more enthusiasm over the stone and the robin than over any of the amazements that succeeded them.
References
* * * * * "amazement" in the Wordsmyth Dictionary-Thesaurus (Wordsmyth, 2002) * "
amazement" in Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary (Cambridge University Press, 2007) * Oxford English Dictionary , second edition (1989) * Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary (1987-1996)
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.