modern
adjective
of or relating to present and recent time; not ancient or remote.
modernness
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a word derived from
modern.
Example Sentences
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“I like the aesthetics of it, I like the modernness of it, yet it has the quality of those boat barns and it has the softness of the wood,” said Jones, 81.
From Seattle Times ● May 21, 2023
Not that they lack solidity but that on the average they are not to be compared, architecturally, with houses of corresponding modernness in such cities as Chicago or Detroit.
From Abroad at Home American Ramblings, Observations, and Adventures of Julian Street by Julian Street
Perhaps we could come upon no clearer proof of that modernness of personality which I have been advocating than this very fact of our complete ignorance as to the physical person of Christ.
From The English Novel And the Principle of its Development by Sidney Lanier
As one opens the book, a powerful note of modernness in the drama, as opposed to the drama of Æschylus, strikes us at the outset in the number of the actors.
From The English Novel And the Principle of its Development by Sidney Lanier
The chorus stood again, and the church choir faced them from the gallery and sang with them antiphonally, to the spiritual discomfort of many who counted it the latest agony of modernness.
From John March, Southerner by George W. Cable
