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    MODERNITY

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    The quality of being current or of the presentplay

    Example:

    a shopping mall would instill a spirit of modernity into this village

    Synonyms:

    contemporaneity; contemporaneousness; modernism; modernity; modernness

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

    Hypernyms ("modernity" is a kind of...):

    currency; currentness; up-to-dateness (the property of belonging to the present time)

    Attribute:

    modern (belonging to the modern era; since the Middle Ages)

    Derivation:

    modern (characteristic of present-day art and music and literature and architecture)

    modern (relating to a recently developed fashion or style)

    modern (belonging to the modern era; since the Middle Ages)

    modern (ahead of the times)

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