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Modernity
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
Example Sentences
- In his softer moments, he seemed to shrink from modernity.
- With modernity now religion's friend, an eternal subject has become fashionable.
- In a debut novel, a town lost in time is thrust headlong into modernity.
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Word Origin & History
modernity
1620s, from M.L. modernitatem, noun of quality from modernus (see modern).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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