modernity
noun
the quality of being modern.
modernities
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pluralof modernity.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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In it, he seemed to shove fiction abruptly in the direction of the 21st century, describing humans as they muddled through overwhelming modernities.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2022
Do you find that they are incorporating a lot of modern techniques or modernities in general into the etiquette rules now?
From Slate ● May 2, 2017
The combination was surprisingly good, with the stark modernities of “Limen” set against the lush romanticism of “Marguerite” and the vaguely mystical rites of “Requiem.”
From New York Times ● Oct. 17, 2011
The music, completed in 1916, before Bartok had honed down his modernities, is as lush as Richard Strauss, as elegant as Debussy.
From Time Magazine Archive
Perhaps I have been misled by small modernities.
From George Bernard Shaw by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
