"modernity" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /məˈdɜːn.ɪ.ti/ [Received-Pronunciation], /məˈdɝn.ɪ.ti/ [General-American] Audio: en-us-modernity.ogg Forms: modernities [plural]
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin modernitās or modern + -ity. Etymology templates: {{bor+|en|la|modernitās}} Borrowed from Latin modernitās, {{suffix|en|modern|ity}} modern + -ity Head templates: {{en-noun}} modernity (plural modernities)
  1. The quality of being modern or contemporary.
    Sense id: en-modernity-en-noun-SHSlICGc Categories (other): Terms with Mandarin translations Disambiguation of Terms with Mandarin translations: 23 42 35
  2. Modern times. Categories (topical): Present, Time
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  3. (history) Quality of being of the modern period of contemporary historiography. Categories (topical): History
    Sense id: en-modernity-en-noun-wBk7JSrP Categories (other): Terms with Mandarin translations Disambiguation of Terms with Mandarin translations: 23 42 35 Topics: history, human-sciences, sciences
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: modernness Derived forms: behavioural modernity, high modernity, late modernity, postmodernity Related terms: modern Translations (quality of being modern): moderniteit (Afrikaans), модерност (modernost) [feminine] (Bulgarian), съвременност (sǎvremennost) [feminine] (Bulgarian), modernitat [feminine] (Catalan), 現代性 (Chinese Mandarin), 现代性 (xiàndàixìng) (Chinese Mandarin), moderniteit [feminine] (Dutch), nykyaikaisuus (Finnish), modernius (Finnish), nykyaika (Finnish), modernidade [feminine] (Galician), Modernität [feminine] (German), νεωτερικότητα (neoterikótita) [feminine] (Greek), nútími [masculine] (Icelandic), modernitas (Indonesian), kemodernan (Indonesian), nua-aimsearthacht [feminine] (Irish), nua-aoiseacht [feminine] (Irish), nua-aois [feminine] (Irish), Modernitéit [feminine] (Luxembourgish), совре́меност (sovrémenost) [feminine] (Macedonian), мо́дерност (módernost) [feminine] (Macedonian), совре́мие (sovrémie) [neuter] (Macedonian), ആധുനികത (ādhunikata) (Malayalam), nowoczesność [feminine] (Polish), nowożytność [feminine] (Polish), modernidade [feminine] (Portuguese), современность (sovremennostʹ) [feminine] (Russian), modernidad [feminine] (Spanish), modernitet [common-gender] (Swedish), moderneiddiwch [masculine] (Welsh), modernrwydd [masculine] (Welsh), moderniteit [common-gender] (West Frisian) Translations (quality of the modern historical period): modernius (Finnish), modernitet [common-gender] (Swedish)
Disambiguation of 'quality of being modern': 53 3 44 Disambiguation of 'quality of the modern historical period': 51 3 46

Inflected forms

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    "Terms with Spanish translations",
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    "Terms with Welsh translations",
    "Terms with West Frisian translations",
    "en:Present",
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    {
      "word": "behavioural modernity"
    },
    {
      "word": "high modernity"
    },
    {
      "word": "late modernity"
    },
    {
      "word": "postmodernity"
    }
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          "ref": "1944 November and December, “Notes and News: Lancaster-Heysham Electrification, L.M.S.”, in Railway Magazine, page 372:",
          "text": "While the rolling-stock lacks modernity, the line equipment, with its single catenary suspension, has a surprisingly up-to-date appearance.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2012 March-April, Jeremy Bernstein, “A Palette of Particles”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 146:",
          "text": "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.",
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        }
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        "The quality of being modern or contemporary."
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          "contemporary"
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          "text": "The organization survived from ancient times to modernity.",
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        "Modern times."
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        "(history) Quality of being of the modern period of contemporary historiography."
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        "human-sciences",
        "sciences"
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      "ipa": "/məˈdɜːn.ɪ.ti/",
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      "code": "af",
      "lang": "Afrikaans",
      "sense": "quality of being modern",
      "word": "moderniteit"
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      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
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      "sense": "quality of being modern",
      "tags": [
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      "code": "ca",
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      "sense": "quality of being modern",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
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      "code": "cmn",
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      "sense": "quality of being modern",
      "word": "現代性"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "xiàndàixìng",
      "sense": "quality of being modern",
      "word": "现代性"
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      "sense": "quality of being modern",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "moderniteit"
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      "code": "fi",
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      "sense": "quality of being modern",
      "word": "nykyaikaisuus"
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "quality of being modern",
      "word": "modernius"
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      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "quality of being modern",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "modernidade"
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    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "quality of being modern",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Modernität"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "neoterikótita",
      "sense": "quality of being modern",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "νεωτερικότητα"
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      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "quality of being modern",
      "word": "modernitas"
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      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "quality of being modern",
      "word": "kemodernan"
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      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "quality of being modern",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "nua-aimsearthacht"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "quality of being modern",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "nua-aoiseacht"
    },
    {
      "code": "lb",
      "lang": "Luxembourgish",
      "sense": "quality of being modern",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Modernitéit"
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      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "sovrémenost",
      "sense": "quality of being modern",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "совре́меност"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "módernost",
      "sense": "quality of being modern",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "мо́дерност"
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    {
      "code": "ml",
      "lang": "Malayalam",
      "roman": "ādhunikata",
      "sense": "quality of being modern",
      "word": "ആധുനികത"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "quality of being modern",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "nowoczesność"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "quality of being modern",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "modernidade"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "sovremennostʹ",
      "sense": "quality of being modern",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "современность"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "quality of being modern",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "modernidad"
    },
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      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "quality of being modern",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "modernitet"
    },
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      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "quality of being modern",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "moderneiddiwch"
    },
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      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "quality of being modern",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "modernrwydd"
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    {
      "code": "fy",
      "lang": "West Frisian",
      "sense": "quality of being modern",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "moderniteit"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "sǎvremennost",
      "sense": "quality of being modern",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "съвременност"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "quality of being modern",
      "word": "nykyaika"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "neoterikótita",
      "sense": "quality of being modern",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "νεωτερικότητα"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "quality of being modern",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "nútími"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "quality of being modern",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "nua-aois"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "sovrémie",
      "sense": "quality of being modern",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "совре́мие"
    },
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      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "quality of being modern",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "nowożytność"
    },
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      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "quality of being modern",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "modernitet"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "quality of the modern historical period",
      "word": "modernius"
    },
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      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "quality of the modern historical period",
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        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "modernitet"
    }
  ],
  "word": "modernity"
}

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