MODERNNESS

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

The quality of being current or of the present

Example:

a shopping mall would instill a spirit of modernity into this village

Synonyms:

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("modernness" is a kind of...):

currency; currentness; up-to-dateness (the property of belonging to the present time)

Attribute:

modern (belonging to the modern era; since the Middle Ages)

Derivation:

modern (characteristic of present-day art and music and literature and architecture)

Modern (used of a living language; being the current stage in its development)

modern (relating to a recently developed fashion or style)