Modernity
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /məˈdɜːnɪti/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Modernity is a noun meaning The quality of being modern or contemporary.
Meaning
The quality of being modern or contemporary.
More Meanings
- Modern times.
- (history) Quality of being of the modern period of contemporary historiography.
Example Sentences
He was impressed by the architecture's modernity.
The organization survived from ancient times to modernity.
While the rolling-stock lacks modernity, the line equipment, with its single catenary suspension, has a surprisingly up-to-date appearance.
There were also particles no one had predicted that just appeared. Five of them […, i]n order of increasing modernity, […] are the neutrino, the pi meson, the antiproton, the quark and the Higgs boson.
Word Forms
- modernities
Synonyms for modernity
Depending on context, synonyms include modernness, modernism, contemporaneousness, contemporaneity.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include modernism, contemporaneity, contemporaneousness, modernization, modernisation, moderne.
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