Mansplained vs Null - What's the difference?
mansplained | null |
(mansplain)
To explain (something) condescendingly (to a female listener), especially to explain something the listener already knows, presuming that she has an inferior understanding of it because she is a woman.
* {{quote-news
, date = 2011-02-01
, title = What's Behind The Drive To Redefine Rape In New And Insane Ways?
, first = Jason
, last = Linkins
, newspaper = (The Huffington Post)
, url = http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/01/whats-behind-the-drive-to-redefine-rape_n_816967.html
, passage = But what's getting all of the attention in the bill is the part where legislators have banded together to mansplain the various shadings of the crime of "rape" to America.}}
* {{quote-news
, date = 2012-05-18
, title = Can Occupy Fight Back Against the War on Women?
, first = Sarah
, last = Seltzer
, newspaper = (The Nation)
, url = http://www.thenation.com/article/167969/can-occupy-fight-back-against-war-women
, passage = There were some Occupy-style solutions: those whose voices dominate should “step back” for an entire meeting. [...] Men should notice when they are “mansplaining ” (this one got a thunderous ovation).}}
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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 a verb mansplained
is (mansplain).As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.mansplained
English
Verb
(head)mansplain
English
(Mansplaining)Verb
(en verb)Coordinate terms
* cissplain * straightsplain * whitesplainSee also
* male answer syndrome * -splainnull
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.