modernity
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| —n , pl -ties | |
| 1. | the quality or state of being modern |
| 2. | something modern |
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Modernity
is always a great word to know.
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Word Origin & History
modernity
1620s, from M.L. modernitatem, noun of quality from modernus (see modern).
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Example sentences
Increasingly, supermarkets have become proxies for modernity itself, and not in a good way.
In every instance, these societies are not failed attempts of modernity.
But this interlude of modernity soon came to a close.
The collision of tradition and modernity in the community can be disorienting.
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