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Modernity vs Modernness - What's the difference?

modernity | modernness |

As nouns the difference between modernity and modernness

is that modernity is the quality of being modern or contemporary while modernness is the property of being modern.

modernity

English

Noun

(wikipedia modernity) (modernities)
  • The quality of being modern or contemporary.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2012, month=March-April
    • , 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.

    • Related terms

    * modern

    modernness

    English

    Noun

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  • the property of being modern