Noun

(wikipedia modernity) (modernities)

The quality of being modern or contemporary.

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, author=(Jeremy Bernstein) , title=A Palette of Particles , volume=100, issue=2, page=146 , magazine=(American Scientist) citation , passage=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.}}

He was impressed by the architecture's modernity .

Modern times.

The organization survived from ancient times to modernity .

(label) Quality of being of the modern period of contemporary historiography.