Sesquipedalophobia vs Null - What's the difference?
sesquipedalophobia | null |
Fear of long words.
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* 2008 , Abhijit Bhaduri, Married But Available , HarperCollins (2012), ISBN 9789350294826,
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 sesquipedalophobia and null
is that sesquipedalophobia is fear of long words while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.sesquipedalophobia
English
Noun
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- But sesquipedalophobia ('hatred or fear of big words,' aptly enough) has prevailed, even among men of learning.
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- Ayesha was like a walking dictionary of phobias. She believed that I had sesquipedalophobia – the fear of long words.
See also
* hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobianull
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.