What's the difference between mundanity and unremarkableness?
Mundanity
Definition:
(n.) Worldliness.
Example Sentences:
(1) But most instances are more mundane: the majority of fraud cases in recent years have emerged from scientists either falsifying images – deliberately mislabelling scans and micrographs – or fabricating or altering their recorded data.
(2) This morning he has mundane tasks to attend to – the logistics of players’ luggage for Basel – but the man they call Monchi is the sporting director and the architect who transformed the club.
(3) This requirement is one that Americans comply with every day to engage in mundane activities like cashing a check, opening a bank account or boarding a plane,” said Reed Clay, a special assistant under Abbott.
(4) The low number of scorable dream reports collected did not reveal a heightened incidence of "masochistic" or "negative" content, indeed were rather mundane.
(5) Today's demands are more mundane: hostage-takers range from single mothers to the nearly retired - they want jobs, proper pay and no brutal layoffs.
(6) Recent research in Delhi has revealed more mundane causes for high levels of violence and harassment.
(7) Finally, Guardian sports reporter turned ace observationalist Josh Widdicombe has the ability to find the sparkle in the mundane that puts him in line to become the next Sean Lock.
(8) Our current understanding of these disease processes is discussed in an effort to review the current status of both the mundane and the esoteric infections of the kidney.
(9) The perhaps disappointingly mundane answer, however, lies in a television programme.
(10) What seems the epitome of mundane routine for the average British commuter is being seen as near miraculous in a city where, like Los Angeles, the car is king and the train is nowhere in sight when navigating the sprawling suburbs.
(11) Many organisms construct structural ceramic (biomineral) composites from seemingly mundane materials; cell-mediated processes control both the nucleation and growth of mineral and the development of composite microarchitecture.
(12) In any case, Caine’s interest was piqued by more mundane matters: it was the first time he had been asked to play a conductor.
(13) Modern research has confirmed that memories for emotionally intense situations are unusually vivid and detailed, but it has also shown that they are no more accurate than mundane memories.
(14) These are the same mundane, bureaucratic factors that conspired to prevent any kind of action in Rwanda , 20 years ago.
(15) Published in their original handwritten form, the minutes of meetings of the Bank’s Court of Directors from 1914 to 45 , and of another key decision-making body, the Committee of the Treasury, from 1914 to 1931 , reveal a rich interweaving of the Earth-shattering and the mundane, which carried several echoes of the most recent crisis period of 2007-09 – minutes from which were released by the Bank on Tuesday.
(16) I think it’s useless to be afraid, actually … I believe that when you do things, when you decide an action, any fear goes away because action is stronger than fear.” Back in Moscow there are more mundane problems to worry about.
(17) Jimmy McGovern's saga of the ill-fated residents of The Street was similarly afflicted, despite its pedigree, as was Broadchurch, the unremitting Southcliffe and Prey, the recent Mancunian take on The Fugitive which managed to be both far-fetched and gruellingly mundane.
(18) In Scott & Bailey , for example, a good deal of the police work is mundane and the characters are bedevilled by the kinds of real-life domestic troubles that normally receive little more than lip service in police procedure.
(19) To the casual observer, emails between CIA staff and Bigelow's team have a somewhat mundane quality to them, though they do suggest a certain fanboyesque enthusiasm for the Hollywood project.
(20) Although rare, eosinophilic granuloma can be associated with cutaneous lesions, sometimes isolated and mundane in appearance.
Unremarkableness
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) But what they take for a witticism might very well be true; most of Ellis's novels tell more or less the same story, about the same alienated ennui, and maybe they really are nothing more than the fictionalised diaries of an unremarkably unhappy man.
(2) Clinical neurological examinations were generally unremarkable with no evidence of focal signs or features of raised intracranial pressure.
(3) Muscle biopsies revealed neurogenic atrophy and sural nerve biopsies were histologically unremarkable.
(4) Jason Kreis and the unremarkable success of Real Salt Lake Read more Kreis had built a serial playoff team in Salt Lake by defining a philosophical approach to the churning personnel turnover that the league’s roster-building restrictions tend to dictate.
(5) Thirty-three patients with an uncomplicated cocaine-related seizure had an unremarkable series of diagnostic tests.
(6) Routine laboratory examination showed hypotonic hyponatremia, but was otherwise unremarkable.
(7) Physical examination was unremarkable with the exception of a left-sided facial palsy.
(8) Because the technical aspects of both procedures were unremarkable, the anatomic features of the mitral valve seemed to affect the occurrence of severe mitral regurgitation.
(9) The history was unremarkable and the laboratory data were within normal limits.
(10) The transorbital examination detected abnormalities in two patients whose studies were otherwise unremarkable.
(11) The electron microscopic study of the skin was unremarkable whereas sural nerve biopsies yielded an essential lack of unmyelinated fibers.
(12) The decision to refuse him, without knowing the full details of it, appears unremarkable.
(13) One anastomotic disruption required reconstruction, but perioperative complications were otherwise unremarkable.
(14) Skylight review – Nighy and Mulligan in moving mixture of politics and love | Michael Billington Read more Commentators write glibly about the public’s increasing contempt for politicians, and yet what goes unremarked, and is equally damaging, is politicians’ growing contempt for us.
(15) Findings on physical examination were unremarkable, but Falciparum malaria was found in the blood smear.
(16) Electronic fetal heart rate monitoring and real-time ultrasound examination of the fetuses were unremarkable.
(17) Meanwhile, brutal heat waves that can kill tens of thousands of people, even in wealthy countries, would become entirely unremarkable summer events on every continent but Antarctica.
(18) In an unremarked move a few months ago, Dave King, the commercial director who had never worked in newspapers before MacLennan appointed him in 2005, was given control of digital as well as print advertising.
(19) In previous hearings – many witnessed by victims and survivors – Holmes' appearance and behavior ranged from bizarre to unremarkable.
(20) Tory cuts are criticised but accepted with a shrug, while the rank incompetence of leading cabinet members, most notably Jeremy Hunt , slips by unremarked upon, almost as if Miliband is too polite to mention it.