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As nouns the difference between matriotism and null

is that matriotism is hometown, school, or parish pride or loyalty, as opposed to nationalism or patriotism while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

matriotism

English

Alternative forms

* Matriotism

Noun

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  • Hometown, school, or parish pride or loyalty, as opposed to nationalism or patriotism
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1856 [1904] , author=James Russell Lowell & Charles Eliot Norton , title=The complete writings of James Russell Lowell , chapter=To Miss Norton , volume=15 , page=8 , passage=I am delighted with your ma triotism . “ Rome, Venice, Cambridge !” I take it for an ascending scale, Rome being the first step and Cambridge the glowing apex. }}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1885 , author=H. C. Beeching , title=The Academy , chapter=Rhymes à la Mode. By A. Lang , volume=27 , number=667 , page=108–109 , passage=[The poem] “ Almae Matres ” celebrates “ a land of waters green and clear,” and “ a little city worn and grey.”
  • Love or celebration of a woman's influence upon society; a women's equivalent to male patriotism
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1894 , author=National Household Economic Association , title=The New England kitchen magazine: a monthly journal of domestic science , volume=1 , page=84 , passage=Patriotism has incited men to live and die for the country and government ; but Matriotism' has impelled women to live and work for mankind. The ' Matriotism of household economics needs to be recognized as necessary for the whole of society. }}
  • Love of the motherland, as opposed to patriotism as love of the fatherland.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1995 , author=Daniel Rancour-Laferriere , title=The slave soul of Russia: moral masochism and the cult of suffering , page=225 , passage=The most extreme Russian patriots are matriots at heart. By this I mean that their devotion to “Mother Russia” is so intense that the underlying maternal fantasy basis of patriotism comes to the surface as maternal imagery, while paternal imagery fades away. }}
  • Pacifist patriotism; love of society as opposed to love of the state
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=2006 , author=Cindy Sheehan & Howard Zinn , title=Dear President Bush , page=113 , passage=Matriotism is the opposite of patriotism. A yin to its yang, a counterforce to the violent militarism of patriotism. Patriots cower behind the flag and send young people to die for the sake of material wealth. }}
  • Devotion to Mother Earth, ecology, sustainability, peace and the survival of the human species as long as possible.

    • Quotations

    * (English Citations of "matriotism")

    Usage notes

    Though attested since the mid 19th century, continued use of quotation marks, and comments that the author would like to be able to claim credit for the word but for it having been suggested by someone else, shows that it is often used as a neologism.

    Derived terms

    * matriotic * matriot, Matriot English words suffixed with -ism

    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)

    Related terms

    * annul

    See also

    * nil ----