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The quality of being modern or contemporary.
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Modern times.
(label) Quality of being of the modern period of contemporary historiography.
To bring something up to date, or make it modern in style or function
To become modern in appearance, or adopt modern ways
As a noun modernity
is the quality of being modern or contemporary.As a verb modernize is
to bring something up to date, or make it modern in style or function.modernity
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Noun
(wikipedia modernity) (modernities)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 .
- The organization survived from ancient times to modernity .
