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MODERNNESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does modernness mean?
• MODERNNESS (noun)
The noun MODERNNESS has 1 sense:
1. the quality of being current or of the present
Familiarity information: MODERNNESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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 ("modernness" 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 (used of a living language; being the current stage in its development)
modern (relating to a recently developed fashion or style)
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