Buffoonery vs Null - What's the difference?
buffoonery | null |
foolishness, silliness; the behaviour expected of a buffoon.
* 1693 : William Congreve, The Old Bachelor
* 1814 : Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
* before 1891 : P.T. Barnum, quoted in The Life of Phineas T. Barnum [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/1576]
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 buffoonery and null
is that buffoonery is foolishness, silliness; the behaviour expected of a buffoon while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.buffoonery
English
Noun
(buffooneries)- Araminta, come, I'll talk seriously to you now; could you but see with my eyes the buffoonery of one scene of address, a lover, set out with all his equipage and appurtenances; ...
- One could not expect anybody to take such a part. Nothing but buffoonery from beginning to end.
- The Temperance Reform was too serious a matter for trifling jokes and buffooneries .
null
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.