Dotage vs Null - What's the difference?
dotage | null |
Decline in judgment and other cognitive functions, associated with aging; senility.
* 1841 , , The Old Curiosity Shop , ch. 1,
Fondness or attentiveness, especially to an excessive degree.
* 1598 , , Much Ado About Nothing , act 2, sc. 3,
foolish utterance; drivel
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 dotage and null
is that dotage is decline in judgment and other cognitive functions, associated with aging; senility while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.dotage
English
Noun
(en noun)- "More care!" said the old man. . . . There were in his face marks of deep and anxious thought which convinced me that he could not be, as I had been at first inclined to suppose, in a state of dotage or imbecility.
- CLAUDIO: And she is exceeding wise.
- DON PEDRO: In every thing but in loving Benedick. . . . I would she had bestowed this dotage on me.
- The sapless dotages of old Paris and Salamanca. — Milton.
Synonyms
* (loss of mental acuity associated with aging) second childhoodAnagrams
* *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.