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histrionic | null |

As an adjective histrionic

is histrionic.

As a noun null is

zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

histrionic

English

Alternative forms

* histrionick (obsolete)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of, or relating to actors or acting.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1905, author=
  • , title= , chapter=2 citation , passage=Miss Phyllis Morgan, as the hapless heroine dressed in the shabbiest of clothes, appears in the midst of a gay and giddy throng; she apostrophises all and sundry there, including the villain, and has a magnificent scene which always brings down the house, and nightly adds to her histrionic laurels.}}
  • Excessively dramatic or emotional, especially with the intention to draw attention.
  • * 1848 , , Oliver Goldsmith'' (review of John Forster, ''Life and Times of Oliver Goldsmith''), ''The North British Review , Volume 9: May—August, page 208,
  • .
  • * 1990 , , The Great Terror: A Reassessment , 2008, page 414,
  • Trotsky's vanity, unlike Stalin's, was, practically speaking, frivolous. There was something more histrionic about it. He had shown himself no less ruthless than Stalin. Indeed, at the time of the Civil War, he had ordered executions on a greater scale than Stalin or anyone else.
  • * 2009 , Peter Bondanella, A History of Italian Cinema , page 220,
  • This lens (known as a carello ottico'' in Italian and a ''travelling optique'' in French) is used sparingly but effectively in ''General Della Rovere during the important bombardment scene inside the prison, which introduces De Sica's most histrionic speech.
  • * 2010 , Joan Lachkar, How to Talk to a Borderline , page 124,
  • So, as he keeps her endlessly frustrated, she becomes more histrionic ; and as she projects her emotional, “dirty” parts onto him, he becomes more anal and compulsive.
  • * 2011 , Neel Burton, Psychiatry , page 138,
  • A vicious circle may form in which the more rejected they feel the more histrionic' they become, and the more ' histrionic they become the more rejected they feel.

    Derived terms

    * histrionics * histrionic personality disorder

    null

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
  • Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
  • (Francis Bacon)
  • 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.
  • Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
  • One of the beads in nulled work.
  • (statistics) null hypothesis
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having no validity, "null and void"
  • insignificant
  • * 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Derived terms

    * nullity

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to nullify; to annul
  • (Milton)

    See also

    * nil ----