modernity

[mo-dur-ni-tee, moh-]

noun

plural

modernities 

1. the quality of being modern.

2. something modern.

Other Word Forms

• hypermodernity noun
• unmodernity noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of modernity¹

First recorded in 1620–30; modern + -ity

Example Sentences

Garrett then takes one major step further, looking at the sickly side of modernity through the lens of the MeToo movement.

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Gelatin wasn’t a punchline; it was progress, the same way Tang was progress, the same way a shelf-stable “cheese food” promised modernity.

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They veiled the stage in gauze on “Copy of A,” casting dozens of Reznor shadows while he strutted and howled about a despondent, depersonalized modernity.

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Far from its victims, air power remains the height of modernity.

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Two decades ago, he coined the term Junkspace to describe the leftover architecture of modernity, the stuff that piles up when the main event is “progress.”

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