Taboo vs Null - What's the difference?
taboo | null |
An inhibition or ban that results from social custom or emotional aversion.
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* 1974 , (Lawrence Durrell), Monsieur , Faber & Faber 1992, p. 213:
(in Polynesia) Something which may not be used, approached or mentioned because it is sacred.
Excluded or forbidden from use, approach or mention.
Culturally forbidden.
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 taboo and null
is that taboo is an inhibition or ban that results from social custom or emotional aversion while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As an adjective taboo
is excluded or forbidden from use, approach or mention.As a verb taboo
is to mark as taboo.taboo
English
(wikipedia taboo)Alternative forms
* tabuNoun
(en noun)- The sharp differentiation of the sexes in our culture was shaped most probably by monogamy and monosexuality and their tabus .
Adjective
(en adjective)- Incest is a taboo subject in most soap operas.
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*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.