Urbanity vs Null - What's the difference?
urbanity | null |
Behaviour that is polished, refined, courteous.
* 1825 , ", The Crayon Papers ,
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=9 (in the plural) Courtesies.
* 1864 , ,
What is characteristically urban in an area; urbanness.
* 1955 , C.J. Lammers, Studies in Holland flood disaster 1953 , vol. 2,
* 1956 , Fred C. Iklé & Harry V. Kincaid, "Social Aspects of Wartime Evacuation of American Cities", Disaster Study , vol 4.,
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 urbanity and null
is that urbanity is behaviour that is polished, refined, courteous while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.urbanity
English
(wikipedia urbanity)Noun
(urbanities)- The vaunted courtesy of the old school, the smooth urbanity that prevailed in former days
citation, passage=Eustace gaped at him in amazement. When his urbanity dropped away from him, as now, he had an innocence of expression which was almost infantile. It was as if the world had never touched him at all.}}
- Wealdon's two little visits explained perfectly the active urbanities of Captain Stanley Lake.
p. 39,
- , the majority of cases will differ as to "urbanity ", as most of the evacuees were rural.
p. 44,
- Evacuees, the majority of whom were rural persons, reported more tensions as the urbanity of the reception community increased
Antonyms
* ruralitynull
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.