Modernity

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /məˈdɜː(ɹ)n.ɪ.ti/

Noun

1. The quality of being modern or contemporary.
• 2012, Jeremy Bernstein, A Palette of Particles, There were also particles no one had predicted that just appeared. Five of them in order of increasing modernity, … are the neutrino, the pi meson, the antiproton, the quark and the Higgs boson.
2. He was impressed by the architecture's modernity.
3. Modern times.The organization survived from ancient times to modernity.

Related terms

• modern