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Modernness

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n. the property of being modern

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. The quality or state of being modern; recentness; novelty.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. The quality or character of being modern; conformity to modern ideas or ways; recentness.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. the quality of being current or of the present

Word Usage

"To some extent he attained his object, but his success was limited; and his teaching affected by what I can only call a modernness of temperament in me, which no force of tradition wholly destroyed or stifled."

Antonym

antiquity

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

currentness up-to-dateness currency

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

recentness novelty modernity neoterism

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

commixture honourableness disentanglement colloquialism decidability