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modernity
/məˈdɝnɪti/
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What does modernity mean?
noun
- The quality of being modern or contemporary.
- Modern times.
- Quality of being of the modern period of contemporary historiography.
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And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their own which mere “modernity” cannot kill.
There is a curious modernity about very many of Christ’s recorded sayings.
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I may remark in passing that when people say that government rests on force they give an admirable instance of the foggy and muddled cynicism of modernity.
Here and there it sprouts out into modernity, but at heart it is still unspoiled; it is full of curious relics, and haloed by the romance of many legends of the past.
Fashion, by which what is really fantastic becomes for a moment universal, and dandyism, which, in its own way, is an attempt to assert the absolute modernity of beauty, had, of course, their fascination for him.