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MODERNITY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of being current or of the present
Example:
a shopping mall would instill a spirit of modernity into this village
Synonyms:
contemporaneity; contemporaneousness; modernism; modernity; modernness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("modernity" is a kind of...):
currency; currentness; up-to-dateness (the property of belonging to the present time)
Attribute:
modern (belonging to the modern era; since the Middle Ages)
Derivation:
modern (characteristic of present-day art and music and literature and architecture)
modern (relating to a recently developed fashion or style)
modern (belonging to the modern era; since the Middle Ages)
modern (ahead of the times)
