noun
modernity
muh-DUR-nih-tee
noun
1
The quality or condition of being modern or contemporary.
"The skyscraper was a symbol of the city's modernity."
How to Use Modernity
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishThe state of being up to date and belonging to the current era, rather than the past.
Word Forms
modernities plural
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Etymology
From "modern" plus the noun suffix "-ity," modeled on Latin modernitas.