modernity

1. 1.

   the quality of being current or of the present

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

   Synonymsmodernnessmodernismcontemporaneitycontemporaneousness

   Broadercurrentness

Other forms of modernity

plural

modernities·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about modernity

What does modernity mean?

modernity means "the quality of being current or of the present".

How many syllables are in modernity?

modernity has 4 syllables: mo-der-ni-ty. The stress falls on "der". In IPA it is /mɑˈdɝnəti/.

What is another word for modernity?

Close synonyms include modernness, modernism, contemporaneity, contemporaneousness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is modernity a common word?

modernity is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.