What does modernity mean?

Definitions for modernity
mɒˈdɜr nɪ ti, moʊ-moder·ni·ty

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. modernity, modernness, modernism, contemporaneity, contemporaneousnessnoun

    the quality of being current or of the present

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

Wiktionary

  1. modernitynoun

    the quality of being modern or contemporary.

    He was impressed by the architecture's modernity.

  2. modernitynoun

    modern times.

    The organization survived from ancient times to modernity.

ChatGPT

  1. modernity

    Modernity is a term used to describe the condition of being modern. It generally refers to the period following the Middle Ages, encompassing the broad spectrum of cultural, social, political, and technological changes brought by the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, the Industrial Revolution, and so on. This period is marked by a departure from traditional forms of society and culture, a shift towards individualism, rationality, science, and a sense of progress and evolution. Modernity is also associated with capitalism, democracy, and the spread of Western influence globally.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Modernitynoun

    modernness; something modern

Wikidata

  1. Modernity

    Modernity typically refers to a post-traditional, post-medieval historical period, one marked by the move from feudalism toward capitalism, industrialization, secularization, rationalization, the nation-state and its constituent institutions and forms of surveillance. Charles Pierre Baudelaire is credited with coining the term "modernity" to designate the fleeting, ephemeral experience of life in an urban metropolis, and the responsibility art has to capture that experience. Conceptually, modernity relates to the modern era and to modernism, but forms a distinct concept. Whereas the Enlightenment invokes a specific movement in Western philosophy, modernity tends to refer only to the social relations associated with the rise of capitalism. Modernity may also refer to tendencies in intellectual culture, particularly the movements intertwined with secularisation and post-industrial life, such as Marxism, existentialism, and the formal establishment of social science. In context, modernity has been associated with cultural and intellectual movements of 1436–1789 and extending to the 1970s or later.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of modernity in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of modernity in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of modernity in a Sentence

  1. Ryan Mauro:

    ISIS is bridging the gap between modernity and its outdated theocratic vision, making its ideology easier for young recruits to accept and embrace, it's hard to imagine Usama Bin Laden making a music video like this and that's another reason that The Islamic State is shaping the future of jihad, not Al Qaeda.

  2. Bryan Gibson:

    We're talking about a group of people who live in a relatively remote part of the world who have contact with modernity but pretty limited.

  3. Paul de Man:

    Modernity exists in the form of a desire to wipe out whatever came earlier, in the hope of reaching at least a point that could be called a true present, a point of origin that marks a new departure.

  4. Paul de Man:

    The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear -- and even, in certain respects, would be -- the most modern of critical movements.

  5. Javad Hashmi:

    They (akh right bros) are very anti-Western and anti-liberal, anti-modernity, anti-consumerism, materialism, is what they claim. But in reality … they are on the platforms that are the creation of all of those things.

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