Seemingly vs Null - What's the difference?
seemingly | null |
To appearances; apparently.
* 1748 , David Hume, Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral , Oxford University Press (1973), section 15:
* 1816 , (Jane Austen), , Volume 1, Chapter 8:
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In a seemly manner; decorously; with propriety.
* 1950 , Francis Charles Turner, James II ,
* 1974 , G. N. Uzoigwe, Britain and the Conquest of Africa: The Age of Salisbury ,
* 1989 , Yi-fu Tuan, Morality & Imagination: Paradoxes of Progress ,
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 adverb seemingly
is to appearances; apparently.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.seemingly
English
Adverb
(en adverb)- an object, seemingly like those which we have experienced, may be attended with different or contrary effects.
- Mr. Woodhouse at last was off; but Mr. Knightley, instead of being immediately off likewise, sat down again, seemingly inclined for more chat. He began speaking of Harriet, and speaking of her with more voluntary praise than Emma had ever heard before.
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=Then everybody once more knelt, and soon the blessing was pronounced. The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly, […], down the nave to the western door. […] At a seemingly immense distance the surpliced group stopped to say the last prayer.}}
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- He sacrificed nothing, laboring to get even the most seemingly insignificant element of every record perfect.
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- It was possibly chagrin at this neglect that caused James to omit the most ordinary courtesies to the few gentlemen who had behaved seemingly :.
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- was restored to his throne but only on the understanding that he behave seemingly .
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- they know the roles and statuses of deities, ancestral spirits, and men, and how to behave seemingly in their presence.
Derived terms
* unseeminglynull
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.