Modernity vs Postmodernity - What's the difference?
modernity | postmodernity |
The quality of being modern or contemporary.
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Modern times.
(label) Quality of being of the modern period of contemporary historiography.
As nouns the difference between modernity and postmodernity
is that modernity is the quality of being modern or contemporary while postmodernity is the state or condition of being postmodern.modernity
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(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 .