modernity

From modern +‎ -ity, a calque of Latin modernitās.^[1][2][3]

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /məˈdɜːnɪti/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /məˈdɝnɪti/

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• (Indic) IPA^(key): /mɵˈɖɜ(r)nɪʈi/, /ˈmɔɖə(r)nɪʈi/
• Hyphenation: mo‧der‧ni‧ty

modernity (countable and uncountable, plural modernities)

1. The quality of being modern or contemporary.

   He was impressed by the architecture's modernity.

   • 1944 November and December, “Notes and News: Lancaster-Heysham Electrification, L.M.S.”, in Railway Magazine, page 372:

     While the rolling-stock lacks modernity, the line equipment, with its single catenary suspension, has a surprisingly up-to-date appearance.

   • 2012 March-April, Jeremy Bernstein, “A Palette of Particles”, in American Scientist‎^[1], volume 100, number 2, page 146:

     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.

2. Modern times.

   The organization survived from ancient times to modernity.

3. (history) Quality of being of the modern period of contemporary historiography.

• modernness

• modern