Word Meanings - MODERNITY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Modernness; something modern. Walpole.

MODERN
1. Of or pertaining to the present time, or time not long past; late; not ancient or remote in past time; of recent period; as, modern days, ages, or time; modern authors; modern fashions; modern taste; modern practice. Bacon. 2. New and common;
MODERNIZATION
The act of rendering modern in style; the act or process of causing to conform to modern of thinking or acting.
SOMETHING
1. Anything unknown, undetermined, or not specifically designated; a certain indefinite thing; an indeterminate or unknown event; an unspecified task, work, or thing. There is something in the wind. Shak. The whole world has something
MODERNNESS
The quality or state of being modern; recentness; novelty. M. Arnold.
MODERNLY
In modern times. Milton.
MODERNITY
Modernness; something modern. Walpole.
MODERNISM
Modern practice; a thing of recent date; esp., a modern usage or mode of expression.
MODERNIZE
To render modern; to adapt to modern person or things; to cause to conform to recent or present usage or taste. Percy.
MODERNIZER
One who modernizes.
MODERNIST
One who admires the moderns, or their ways and fashions.