Bafflement vs Null - What's the difference?
bafflement | null |
(uncountable) The state or result of being baffled, puzzled, or confused.
* 1920 , , The Bat , ch. 12:
(countable) Something that causes a state of confusion or puzzlement.
* 2005 Dec. 16, , "
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 bafflement and null
is that bafflement is (uncountable) the state or result of being baffled, puzzled, or confused while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.bafflement
English
Noun
- "Have you any theory about this occurrence to-night?" She watched him eagerly as she asked the question.
- He made a gesture of bafflement .
- "None whatever—it's beyond me," he confessed.
Best of 2005: Music," Time :
- The cartoon characters on the front cover, the irritatingly meaningless track names . . . make it seem like a concept album about global warming for kids. Since the lyrics remain a bafflement , it might well be.
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.