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modernity

noun
/məˈdɜːnɪti/UK/məˈdɝnɪti/US/mɵˈɖɜ(r)nɪʈi/

Etymology

From modern + -ity, a calque of Latin modernitās.

  1. calqued from modernitās

Definitions

  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.
    • 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.

  2. Modern times.

    • The organization survived from ancient times to modernity.

  3. Quality of being of the modern period of contemporary historiography.

The neighborhood

Derived

antimodernity, behavioural modernity, high modernity, hypermodernity, late modernity, nonmodernity, petromodernity, postmodernity, premodernity, ultramodernity

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for modernity. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA