modernity
pronunciation
How to pronounce modernity in British English:
UK [məˈdɜ:nəti]
How to pronounce modernity in American English:
US [məˈdɜrnəti]
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- Noun:
- the quality of being current or of the present
Word Origin
- modernity (n.)
- 1620s, from Medieval Latin modernitatem, noun of quality from modernus (see modern).
Example
- 1. Foreign commentators sneered that they were protesting against modernity .
- 2. My work investigates issues of urbanity , modernity , progress and the otherworldly .
- 3. Today , radical islamists are the last holdout against these powerful forces of modernity .
- 4. Hungary 's race away from modernity is fuelling an exodus by those it needs most .
- 5. The findings are an assault on modernity itself , not just the forms of modernity the left dislikes .