Recondite vs Null - What's the difference?
recondite | null |
(of areas of study and literature) Difficult, obscure; particularly:
# Abstruse, profound, difficult to grasp
#* 1619 , John Bainbridge, Astronomicall description of the late comet , 42
#* ante'' 1894 , (Robert Louis Stevenson), ''Amateur Emigrant (1895), 40
# Esoteric, little known; secret
#* 1644 , John Bulwer, Chirologia: or The naturall language of the hand. Whereunto is added Chironomic or the Art of manuall rhetoricke , 137
#* 1722 , F. Lee, Epistolary Discourses , 41
#* 1817 , (Samuel Taylor Coleridge), Biographia Literaria , I. iii. 65
#* 1849 , (Herman Melville), Mardi: and A Voyage Thither , II. §67
#* 1921 , (Joseph Conrad), Secret Agent'', Preface in ''Works , VIII. page xvii
#* 1948 , (William Somerset Maugham), Catalina , xv. 83
#* 1992 Autumn, American Scholar , 576/1
#* 2004 , Alexander McCall Smith, Sunday Philosophy Club , xxi. 224
# (of writers) Deliberately obscure; employing abstruse or esoteric allusions or references
#* 1788 , Vicesimus Knox, Winter Evenings , II. v. i. 109
#* 1817 , (Samuel Taylor Coleridge), Biographia literaria; or, Biographical sketches of my literary life and opinions , II. xxii. 172
#* 2004 Autumn, American Scholar , 129
# (of scholars) Learnèd]], having mastery over one's field, including its esoteric [[minutiæ
#* 1836 , (Edward Bulwer-Lytton), "Sir Thomas Browne" in The Critical and Miscellaneous Writings of Sir Edward Lytton (1841),
#* 1891 , George T. Ferris, The Great German Composers
#* 1998 , , Art for Art's Sake & Literary Life ,
Hidden or removed from view
* 1649 , John Bulwer, Pathomyotomia , ii. ii. 108
* 1796 , (Samuel Taylor Coleridge), Letters , I. 209
* 1823 , (Charles Lamb), Old Benchers in Elia , 190
* 1825 , Thomas Say, Say's Entomol. , Glossary, 28
* 1857 , (Charles Dickens), Little Dorrit , §21
* 1887 , (Robert Louis Stevenson), "The Canoe Speaks" in Underwoods
* 2002 , Nick Tosches, In the Hand of Dante , 253
Shy, avoiding notice (particularly human notice)
* 1835 , Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society , 125, 361
to hide, cover up, conceal
* 1578 , John Banister, The History of Man , i. f. 32
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 an adjective recondite
is (of areas of study and literature) difficult, obscure; particularly:.As a verb recondite
is to hide, cover up, conceal.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.recondite
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- I hope this new Messenger from Heauen]] doth bring happie tidings of some munificent and liberall Patron... by whose gracious bountie the most recondite mysteries of this abstruse and [[divine, diuine science shall at length be manifested.
- Humanly speaking, it is a more important matter to play the fiddle, even badly, than to write huge works upon recondite subjects.
- There was in the man much learning, and that of the more inward & recondit , a great Antiquary, and one that had a certain large possession of Divine and Humane]] [[laws, Lawes.
- The Apostle Paul had taken up many things out of these Recondite and Apocryphal Writings.
- [Of Southey:] I look in vain for any writer who has conveyed so much information, from so many and such recondite sources.
- But I beseech thee, wise Doxodox! instruct me in thy dialectics, that I may embrace thy more recondite lore.
- Suggestions for certain personages... came from various sources which... some reader may have recognized. They are not very recondite .
- He was never at a loss for a recondite allusion.
- It was hardly foreordained that a poor orphan from darkest Brittany... working in the recondite realms of Semitic philology, should play such a role in his time.
- While oenophiles resorted to recondite adjectives, whisky [sic] nosers spoke the language of everyday life.
- They afford a lesson to the modern metaphysical and recondite writers not to overvalue their works.
- In the play of fancy, , to my feelings, is not always graceful and sometimes recondite .
- The voices of recondite writers quoted at length, forgotten storytellers weaving narratives, obscure scholars savaging one another.
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- It is delightful to see this recondite scholar — this contemplative and refining dreamer — in the centre of his happy nor unworthy household.
- [Of
] : Our musician rapidly became known far and wide throughout the musical centres of Germany as a learned and recondite composer.
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- Cousin's lectures take their initial cue from the weighty treatises of a remote, recondite thinker named (Immanuel Kant).
- The Eye is somewhat recondit betweene its Orbite.
- My recondite eye sits distent quaintly behind the flesh-hill, and looks as little as a tomtit's.
- The young urchins,... not being able to guess at its recondite machinery, were almost tempted to hail the wondrous work as magic.
- Recondite , (aculeus) concealed within the abdomen, seldom exposed to view.
- How such a man should suppose himself unwell without reason, you may think strange. But I have found nothing the matter with him. He may have some deep-seated recondite complaint. I can't say. I only say, that at present I have not found it out.
- ...following the recondite brook,
- Sudden upon this scene I look,
- And light with unfamiliar face
- On chaste Diana's bathing-place
- Silent calligraphy sounds that were like those of the sweet fluent water of a recondite stream.
- Animals of this class are so recondite in their habits... so little known to naturalists beyond the more common species.
Verb
(recondit)- Tendons: recondited , and hidde in their Muscle, as if they were in a purse imposed.
References
* Oxford English Dictionary , 3rd ed. "recondite, adj." and "v." Oxford University Press (Oxford), 2009. *Anagrams
* ----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.