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Meaning of Modernity | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2
məˈdɜːnɪti

Definitions

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

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.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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