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
But the first act was not half over before the extreme modernness of the play forced itself upon you.
From Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911 by Arnold Bennett
By the strong touch of modernness which these poets and the best of their followers introduced into their work, they have given the vivification required.
From A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) by George Saintsbury
This story of Janet's Repentance offers us, by the way, a strong note of modernness as between George Eliot and Shakspeare.
From The English Novel And the Principle of its Development by Sidney Lanier
This is an anomalous feature and suggests modernness.
From The Cliff Ruins of Canyon de Chelly, Arizona Sixteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1894-95, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1897, pages 73-198 by Cosmos Mindeleff
