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Noun: modernity  mó'dur-ni-tee
  1. The quality of being current or of the present
    "a shopping mall would instil a spirit of modernity into this village";
    - modernness, modernism, contemporaneity, contemporaneousness

Derived forms: modernities

See also: modern

Type of: currency, currentness, up-to-dateness

Encyclopedia: Modernity