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modernness|ˈmɒdənnɪs|
[f. modern a. + -ness.]
The quality or state of being modern; conformity to modern conditions or ideas.
1731Bailey vol. II, Modernness, newness, the being of late days. 1825W. Cobbett Rur. Rides (1885) II. 19 The Bridewell, which from the modernness of its structure, appears to be [etc.]. 1835Fraser's Mag. XII. 650 Though he should..outlive his modernness as much as George Coleman the Younger has outlived his youth. 1874Mahaffy Soc. Life Greece ix. 278 The fact remains a very curious monument of the modernness of Attic life. 1905Athenæum 16 Sept. 362/3 The ‘modernness’ of thought shown in Jevons's mode of handling his subject. |