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
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
It would be an odd way of praising that school if its lack of modernness were a mere matter of lagging behind or of standing still and marking time.
From Artist and Public And Other Essays On Art Subjects by Kenyon Cox
Old houses tell it, old trees tell it, old names tell it, and the very modernness of the new things emphasizes the heroic drama of the past.
From The Lightning Conductor Discovers America by C. N. (Charles Norris) Williamson
But on this need the class-practice of generations had built up a deference, a sharpness of class-distinction, which any modern must find more and more irksome in proportion to his modernness.
From Marcella by Mrs. Humphry Ward
