MODERNITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does modernity mean? 

• MODERNITY (noun)
  The noun MODERNITY has 1 sense:

1. the quality of being current or of the present

  Familiarity information: MODERNITY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MODERNITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of being current or of the present

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

contemporaneity; contemporaneousness; modernism; modernity; modernness

Context example:

a shopping mall would instill a spirit of modernity into this village

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)

 Context examples 

And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their own which mere "modernity" cannot kill.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)