What's the difference between commonplace and commonplaceness?

Commonplace


Definition:

  • (a.) Common; ordinary; trite; as, a commonplace person, or observation.
  • (n.) An idea or expression wanting originality or interest; a trite or customary remark; a platitude.
  • (n.) A memorandum; something to be frequently consulted or referred to.
  • (v. t.) To enter in a commonplace book, or to reduce to general heads.
  • (v. i.) To utter commonplaces; to indulge in platitudes.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Well known buyout firms such as Blackstone and Carlyle appear in the leaked documents, and Luxembourg investment vehicles are commonplace in such investment firms.
  • (2) Knowledge of the normal radiographic appearance of ASD occlusion devices and the findings in various complications will be necessary for radiologists as transcatheter ASD closure becomes more commonplace.
  • (3) That culture was reinforced elsewhere, with female staff told to smarten up, wear lipstick, and some required to attend trade shows where “booth babes” – scantily-clad models promoting products - were commonplace.
  • (4) Emergency medical response to a scene where hazardous materials are potentially involved is becoming more commonplace.
  • (5) At a time when the intrauterine diagnosis of hydrocephalus is commonplace and pioneering efforts of antenatal therapy are evolving, review of the chronology of treatment of this disorder becomes pertinent.
  • (6) According to Amnesty International, the death penalty “is so far removed from any kind of legal parameters that it is almost hard to believe”, with the use of torture to extract confessions commonplace.
  • (7) Like a great many people in what was at that time an industrial country, I grew up in a landscape that was interestingly pockmarked with successive eras of exploitation, and all of it so commonplace that beyond a mention of its origins, Watt's engine or Crompton's spinning mule, it never found a place in the history books.
  • (8) Supraventricular and ventricular arrhythmias remain relatively commonplace in the ICU.
  • (9) Rose, a Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design fine art graduate, said she is determined that the rules should be changed "as this treatment is becoming more commonplace for Crohn's disease sufferers and I would not want any other woman to have to go through this ordeal".
  • (10) The camera’s capers have almost become so commonplace that some presenters just ignore them.
  • (11) Hepatic transplantation is now a relatively commonplace procedure, performed at many institutions around the world.
  • (12) Talk about corruption in Russia is commonplace and in our history there have been attempts to curb it through repression.
  • (13) But although the technology has become commonplace in Japan, where it was first developed, banks in Britain say it could be years before they appear on UK high streets.
  • (14) Although advanced gastrointestinal cancer is the most commonplace problem encountered by the medical oncologist, this group of diseases has proved exceedingly resistant to past chemotherapy efforts.
  • (15) But although he says he is against extrajudicial killing of criminals, the record in his city of Davao suggests such killings have been commonplace there.
  • (16) If listeners treat sinusoidal signals as speech signals however unlike speech they may be, then perception should exhibit the commonplace sensitivity to the dimensions of the originating vocal tract.
  • (17) The disease started with a commonplace contusion of the patella and rapidly progressed after arthrotomy.
  • (18) Automation of the assay is now commonplace, from reagent dispensing to automated reading of finished assay.
  • (19) Complaints that steel products are being exported below production cost (“dumped”) from China to the US and the EU are commonplace.
  • (20) Those are commonplace tricks to bring pay far below the minimum wage.

Commonplaceness


Definition:

  • (n.) The quality of being commonplace; commonness.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Well known buyout firms such as Blackstone and Carlyle appear in the leaked documents, and Luxembourg investment vehicles are commonplace in such investment firms.
  • (2) Knowledge of the normal radiographic appearance of ASD occlusion devices and the findings in various complications will be necessary for radiologists as transcatheter ASD closure becomes more commonplace.
  • (3) That culture was reinforced elsewhere, with female staff told to smarten up, wear lipstick, and some required to attend trade shows where “booth babes” – scantily-clad models promoting products - were commonplace.
  • (4) Emergency medical response to a scene where hazardous materials are potentially involved is becoming more commonplace.
  • (5) At a time when the intrauterine diagnosis of hydrocephalus is commonplace and pioneering efforts of antenatal therapy are evolving, review of the chronology of treatment of this disorder becomes pertinent.
  • (6) According to Amnesty International, the death penalty “is so far removed from any kind of legal parameters that it is almost hard to believe”, with the use of torture to extract confessions commonplace.
  • (7) Like a great many people in what was at that time an industrial country, I grew up in a landscape that was interestingly pockmarked with successive eras of exploitation, and all of it so commonplace that beyond a mention of its origins, Watt's engine or Crompton's spinning mule, it never found a place in the history books.
  • (8) Supraventricular and ventricular arrhythmias remain relatively commonplace in the ICU.
  • (9) Rose, a Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design fine art graduate, said she is determined that the rules should be changed "as this treatment is becoming more commonplace for Crohn's disease sufferers and I would not want any other woman to have to go through this ordeal".
  • (10) The camera’s capers have almost become so commonplace that some presenters just ignore them.
  • (11) Hepatic transplantation is now a relatively commonplace procedure, performed at many institutions around the world.
  • (12) Talk about corruption in Russia is commonplace and in our history there have been attempts to curb it through repression.
  • (13) But although the technology has become commonplace in Japan, where it was first developed, banks in Britain say it could be years before they appear on UK high streets.
  • (14) Although advanced gastrointestinal cancer is the most commonplace problem encountered by the medical oncologist, this group of diseases has proved exceedingly resistant to past chemotherapy efforts.
  • (15) But although he says he is against extrajudicial killing of criminals, the record in his city of Davao suggests such killings have been commonplace there.
  • (16) If listeners treat sinusoidal signals as speech signals however unlike speech they may be, then perception should exhibit the commonplace sensitivity to the dimensions of the originating vocal tract.
  • (17) The disease started with a commonplace contusion of the patella and rapidly progressed after arthrotomy.
  • (18) Automation of the assay is now commonplace, from reagent dispensing to automated reading of finished assay.
  • (19) Complaints that steel products are being exported below production cost (“dumped”) from China to the US and the EU are commonplace.
  • (20) Those are commonplace tricks to bring pay far below the minimum wage.

Words possibly related to "commonplaceness"