Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality or character of being modern; conformity to modern ideas or ways; recentness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being modern; recentness; novelty.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun the property of being
modern
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the quality of being current or of the present
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word modernness.
Examples
-
To some extent he attained his object, but his success was limited; and his teaching affected by what I can only call a modernness of temperament in me, which no force of tradition wholly destroyed or stifled.
-
He seeks this thing which we may call modernness, for no better word to express the idea presents itself.
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4
-
Human civilization has grown to its present day modernness thanks to scientific advances.
Review: _Something Magic This Way Comes_ edited by Martin H. Greenberg & Sarah A. Hoyt
-
Human civilization has grown to its present day modernness thanks to scientific advances.
-
Characters like Martha add a modernness that the old series lacked.
-
July 20, 2006, 4: 44 am hotels san diego says: hotels sandiego reactivate wrongly! handsomest: modernness? unlawfully enqueued
The Volokh Conspiracy » John Lott and the National Research Council’s Report.–
-
I am struck, in reading him, with the extreme modernness of his style and spirit.
-
This perpetual modernness is the measure of merit in every work of art; since the author of it was not misled by any thing short-lived or local, but abode by real and abiding traits.
-
To be sure, there were aspects of Germany he did not care for -- he found Berlin suffering from the same "modernness, ugliness, and bigness" of Boston -- and at the end of his second semester he moved to England, which he found
-
It sat on a hill that gave a fantastic view of the Nile, its porch open to the breeze and offering an Old World elegance that sharply contrasted with the high-rise modernness of the New Cataract Hotel that adjoined it.
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.