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modernity

[ US /mɑˈdɝnəti/ ]
[ UK /mˈɒdənɪti/ ]
NOUN
  1. the quality of being current or of the present
    a shopping mall would instill a spirit of modernity into this village

How To Use modernity In A Sentence

  • Although Jameson is clear-eyed about the corrosive effects of modernity, his methodology nevertheless seemed to require his allegiance to secularization and to convergence theories of modernization; moreover, the acuity and insight of the readings produced by this methodology served to justify that faith a posteriori. Introduction
  • Within the context of modernity, the autonomous artist, as a creative being, explores varying moods, passion, sentiments and emotions.
  • The functional modernity of the computer struck a discordant note amid the elegant eighteenth-century furniture.
  • That was seven years ago, when minimalism, simplicity and modernity were prized.
  • The one concession to modernity is a notice at the bottom of the page which says that items in bold print are organic and certified by the Soil Association.
  • Just with such an attitude, Agnes Heller, as a major philosopher, Ethicist, political philosopher, social philosopher of Budapest School, surveys some aspects about modernity and aesthetic modernity.
  • A remarkable number of these programs end up with a kind of populist longing for Gemeinschaft amid the alienating Gesellschaft of modernity.
  • Spontaneous, full of life, and unbound by the conventional mores and laws of society, Carmen embodies the heroic defiance of free spirit, desire, and natural instinct over the social rules governing modernity.
  • These sources give us valuable insights into her autodidacticism in all its profusion and chaos, as well as her modernity. The Times Literary Supplement
  • There is definitely a more palpable feeling of modernity. Times, Sunday Times
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