The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
n. The state or quality of being modern: "Warriors of the . . . tribe, imposing symbols of a nomadic culture . . . are caught between tradition and modernity” ( Sheila Rule).
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. Modernness; something modern.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. The quality or state of being modern; modernism in time of spirit.
n. Something that is modern.
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n. the quality of being current or of the present
Word Usage
"In my view, his observation that Buddhism is a religion for late human beings is actually a warning against the onset of nihilism in modernity, which Buddhism typifies."