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Modern vs Neoteric - What's the difference?

modern | neoteric |

As adjectives the difference between modern and neoteric

is that modern is pertaining to a current or recent time and style; not ancient while neoteric is modern, new-fangled.

As nouns the difference between modern and neoteric

is that modern is someone who lives in modern times while neoteric is a modern author (especially as opposed to a classical writer).

modern

English

Adjective

(en-adj)
  • Pertaining to a current or recent time and style; not ancient.
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  • *:But then I had the flintlock by me for protection. ΒΆ There were giants in the days when that gun was made; for surely no modern mortal could have held that mass of metal steady to his shoulder. The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-08, volume=407, issue=8839, page=55, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Obama goes troll-hunting , passage=The solitary, lumbering trolls of Scandinavian mythology would sometimes be turned to stone by exposure to sunlight. Barack Obama is hoping that several measures announced on June 4th will have a similarly paralysing effect on their modern incarnation, the patent troll.}}
  • (lb) Pertaining to the modern period (c.1800 to contemporary times), particularly in academic historiography.

    • Synonyms

    * contemporary

    Antonyms

    * dated * old * pre-modern * ancient

    Derived terms

    * modern-day * modernise, modernize verb * modernity noun * postmodern (''see also prepostmodern, postpostmodern) * premodern * early modern

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Someone who lives in modern times.
  • * 1779 , Edward Capell, ?John Collins, Notes and various readings to Shakespeare
    • What the moderns could mean by their suppression of the final couplet's repeatings, cannot be conceiv'd
  • * 1956 , John Albert Wilson, The Culture of Ancient Egypt (page 144)
    • Even though we moderns can never crawl inside the skin of the ancient and think and feel as he did we must as historians make the attempt.

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    neoteric

    English

    Alternative forms

    * neoterical

    Adjective

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  • Modern, new-fangled.
  • * Fitzed. Hall
    • Our neoteric verbs.''
  • New; recent.
  • *"Should it all come crashing in on us . . . will there be enough luddites, whose hands remember, to free us from the chains of neoteric technology?" — The Toronto Star , August 21, 1998
  • *"A few words on the two neoteric terms, cybertext'' and ''ergodic'', are in order." — ''Cybertext , 1997, Espen Aarseth.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A modern author (especially as opposed to a classical writer).
  • *, Bk.I, New York, 2001, p.140:
  • *:Galen himself writes promiscuously of them both by reason of their affinity; but most of our neoterics do handle them apart, whom I will follow in this treatise.
  • Someone with new or modern ideas.

    • External links

    * Dictionary.com's entry for neoteric.

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