Sapient vs Null - What's the difference?
sapient | null |
Possessing wisdom and discernment; wise, learned.
* 2010 , (Christopher Hitchens), Hitch-22 , Atlantic 2011, p. 217:
(chiefly, science fiction) Possessing intelligence and self-awareness.
* {{quote-magazine
, year = 1962
, date = January
, first = Henry Beam
, last = Piper
, authorlink = H. Beam Piper
, title = Naudsonce
, magazine = Analog Science Fact and Science Fiction
, volume = 68
, issue = 5
, page = 9
, passage = It was inhabited by a sapient humanoid race, and some of them were civilized enough to put it in Class V, and Colonial Office doctrine on Class V planets was rigid.
}}
(chiefly, science fiction) An intelligent, self-aware being.
* {{quote-book
, year = 1960
, first = Philip José
, last = Farmer
, authorlink = Philip José Farmer
, title = A Woman a Day
, page = 30
, passage = It seemed to him a possibility that the Cold War Corps of March might have contacted hitherto unknown sapients on some just discovered interstellar planet.
}}
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 sapient and null
is that sapient is (chiefly|science fiction) an intelligent, self-aware being while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As an adjective sapient
is possessing wisdom and discernment; wise, learned.sapient
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- In Europe I had been told by sapient academics that there wasn't really any class system in the United States: well, you couldn't prove that by the conditions in California's agribusinesses, or indeed its urban factories.
Synonyms
* (possessing wisdom) wise, sagacious * (possessing self-awareness) intelligent, self-aware, sentientReferences
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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.
