Similar words: modernise, modernize, postmodernism, modernization, modern, postmodern, ultramodern, eternity. Meaning: [mə'dɜrnətɪ /mɒ'dɜː-] 
n. the quality of being current or of the present.
n. the quality of being current or of the present. 
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1 There is a stark contrast between tradition and modernity on the streets of the city.
2 The functional modernity of the computer struck a discordant note amid the elegant eighteenth-century furniture.
3 Another characteristic of good design is modernity.
4 But even there, modernity has encroached.
5 The Enlightenment was the morning star of modernity.
6 She remains for him, even in modernity, enemy territory.
7 John Smith is still moving crabwise towards modernity.
8 The great strain for married couples in modernity is the absurdly high expectation of the marriage bond.
9 Mainstream modernism has often measured its modernity in terms of how far it dispenses with nature / naturalism.
10 People experience modernity without understanding its foundations, its basic concepts.
11 The growing crises of modernity are being met with corrective actions from a great many quarters.
12 The speeding up of modernity began with the start of modern consumerism.
13 Along the way, various heroes of modernity, such as Gropius and Picasso,(sentencedict.com) overtly identified their self-image as Promethean.
14 Second, in the defensiveness about modernity a gender correlation is not uncommon.
15 Modernity, then, is incurably materialistic but it can look towards either collectivism or individualism.
16 Beneath its denunciation of war and its apparent modernity there is the chauvinist roar of good and evil.
17 It was, broadly speaking, the cultural outcome of modernity, the social experience of living in the modern world.
18 Death is the unforgivable sin of modernity,[www.Sentencedict.com] and the modern world will have nothing to do with her.
19 Modernism was the characteristic expression of the experience of modernity.
20 The antique furnishing provides an unusual contrast to the modernity of the building.
21 His films attempt to bridge the gap between tradition and modernity.
22 For in the Soviet Union nuclear energy is a potent symbol of high technology and modernity.
23 It offers the qualities of religion without rejecting any of the fixed points of modernity - science, progress, agnosticism.
24 If subjects exercise symbolic violence in traditional societies, fields or structures produce symbolic goods and hence exercise symbolic violence in modernity.
25 It is possible to envisage a new imaginary war between North and South, neo-Fordism and fundamentalism, modernity and monstrosity.
26 My guess is that many of you have had enough of life before modernity.
27 I wish to focus attention, instead, on movements that challenged modernity in a far more fundamental way.
28 For the civic culture is not a modern culture, but one that combines modernity with tradition.
29 In fact, the nationalists were prisoners of a historical situation that inevitably made modernity a no-win choice.
30 There are laughs to be had in putting James at odds with his own Americanness, and indeed his own prototypical modernity.
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