Misanthropy vs Null - What's the difference?
misanthropy | null |
Hatred or dislike of people or mankind.
* 1817, , Author's Preface
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, title= 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 misanthropy and null
is that misanthropy is hatred or dislike of people or mankind while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.misanthropy
English
(wikipedia misanthropy)Noun
- Hence gloom and misanthropy have become the characteristics of the age in which we live, the solace of a disappointment that unconsciously finds relief only in the wilful exaggeration of its own despair.
Obama goes troll-hunting, passage=According to this saga of intellectual-property misanthropy , these creatures [patent trolls] roam the business world, buying up patents and then using them to demand extravagant payouts from companies they accuse of infringing them. Often, their victims pay up rather than face the costs of a legal battle.}}
Synonyms
* Timonism (bitter misanthropy)Antonyms
* (dislike of people) altruism, philanthropyHyponyms
* misandry * misogynyDerived terms
* misanthrope * misanthropic * misanthropistnull
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.