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homosexuality | null |

As nouns the difference between homosexuality and null

is that homosexuality is the state of being sexually and romantically attracted primarily to persons of the same sex while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

homosexuality

Noun

(en-noun)
  • The state of being sexually and romantically attracted primarily to persons of the same sex.
  • Sexual activity with a person of the same sex.
  • Usage notes

    Homosexuality in women is also known as lesbianism. As homosexuality'' applies to people of either sex, the expression ''homosexuality and lesbianism'' is redundant and is best replaced by ''homosexuality'' or ''lesbianism'' alone as appropriate. Different cultural constructions of same-sex love are collectively referred to as ''homosexualities.

    Synonyms

    * gayness, queerness * homosexualism * lesbianism (applied only to women) * uranism (rare)

    Antonyms

    * heterosexuality * straightness (slang)

    Hyponyms

    * scissoring

    See also

    * * pederasty * homosexual * gay * lesbian * GLBT English words prefixed with homo-

    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 ----