Sentience vs Null - What's the difference?
sentience | null |
The state or quality of being sentient; possession of consciousness or sensory awareness.
* 1903 , , The Jewel of Seven Stars , ch. 5:
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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 sentience and null
is that sentience is the state or quality of being sentient; possession of consciousness or sensory awareness while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.sentience
English
Noun
(-)- [T]he shadows . . . presently began to seem, as on last night, to have a sentience of their own.
Did This Tiger Hold a Grudge?," Time :
- The science of animal sentience is far from a firm one; there's no way of knowing exactly what any animal is feeling.
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.