MODERNNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does modernness mean? 

• MODERNNESS (noun)
  The noun MODERNNESS has 1 sense:

1. the quality of being current or of the present

  Familiarity information: MODERNNESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MODERNNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of being current or of the present

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

contemporaneity; contemporaneousness; modernism; modernity; modernness

Context example:

a shopping mall would instill a spirit of modernity into this village

Hypernyms ("modernness" is a kind of...):

currency; currentness; up-to-dateness (the property of belonging to the present time)

Attribute:

modern (belonging to the modern era; since the Middle Ages)

Derivation:

modern (characteristic of present-day art and music and literature and architecture)

Modern (used of a living language; being the current stage in its development)

modern (relating to a recently developed fashion or style)