Unfounded vs Null - What's the difference?
unfounded | null |
Having no strong foundation; not based on solid reasons or facts.
Not having been founded or instituted.
* 1980 , Helen Louise Gardner, ?John Carey, English Renaissance studies (page 268)
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 adjective unfounded
is having no strong foundation; not based on solid reasons or facts.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.unfounded
English
Adjective
(-)- Even the great world as yet undiscovered, the cities as yet unfounded , and the history as yet unwritten, are lost: fallen from the beginning.
Synonyms
* (not based on solid reasons or facts) baseless, groundless, ungroundednull
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.