Modernity

Definitions

1. The quality of being modern or contemporary.
   countable, uncountable
2. Modern times.
   countable, uncountable
3. Quality of being of the modern period of contemporary historiography.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“The organization survived from ancient times to modernity.”

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