modernity
nounUK /məˈdɜːnɪti/ · US /məˈdɝnɪti/
Etymology From modern + -ity, a calque of Latin modernitās.
1
The quality of being modern or contemporary.
- He was impressed by the architecture's modernity.
- While the rolling-stock lacks modernity, the line equipment, with its single catenary suspension, has a surprisingly up-to-date appearance.1944 November and December, “Notes and News: Lancaster-Heysham Electrification, L.M.S.”, in Railway Magazine, page 372:
1 more example
- 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.2012 March-April, Jeremy Bernstein, “A Palette of Particles”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 146:
2
Modern times.
- The organization survived from ancient times to modernity.
3
History, Human sciences, Sciences Quality of being of the modern period of contemporary historiography.
- Synonyms
- modernness
- Derived terms
- antimodernity, behavioural modernity, high modernity, hypermodernity, late modernity, liquid modernity, nonmodernity, petromodernity, postmodernity, premodernity, ultramodernity
- Related terms
- modern