Whimsy vs Null - What's the difference?
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A quaint and fanciful idea. A whim. Playfully odd behaviour.
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An impulsive, illogical or capricious character.
(mining) A whim.
To fill with whimsies or whims; to make fantastic; to craze.
* J. Fletcher
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 whimsy and null
is that whimsy is a quaint and fanciful idea a whim playfully odd behaviour while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb whimsy
is to fill with whimsies or whims; to make fantastic; to craze.whimsy
English
Alternative forms
* whimseyNoun
(en-noun)- The whimsies of poets and painters. — Ray.
- Men's folly, whimsies , and inconstancy. — Swift.
- Mistaking the whimseys of a feverish brain for the calm revelation of truth. — Bancroft.
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Verb
- To have a man's brain whimsied with his wealth.
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.