Modernity Meaning
/məˈdɜːnɪti/Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounThe quality of being modern or contemporary.
nounModern times.
Sentence Examples
Although Wright’s designs are up to a century old, they retain an air of modernity.
The nation state is a product of modernity.
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The city's ____ was evident in its tall skyscrapers and modern digital infrastructure.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The various changes brought about by technological progress have fundamentally shaped the world of ____ and our daily lives.
Word Origin & History
From modern + -ity, a calque of Latin modernitās.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"While the rolling-stock lacks modernity, the line equipment, with its single catenary suspension, has a surprisingly up-to-date appearance."
— 1944 November and December, “Notes and News: Lancaster-Heysham Electrification, L.M.S.”, in Railway Magazine, page 372:
"There were also particles no one had predicted that just appeared. Five of them […, i]n order of increasing modernity, […] are the neutrino, the pi meson, the antiproton, the quark and the Higgs boson."
— 2012 March-April, Jeremy Bernstein, “A Palette of Particles”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 146:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The city's ____ was evident in its tall skyscrapers and modern digital infrastructure.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The various changes brought about by technological progress have fundamentally shaped the world of ____ and our daily lives.