modernnessn.

Brit.

/ˈmɒd(ə)nnəs/, U.S.

/ˈmɑdər(n)nəs/

Forms: 1600s modernes, 1700s– modernness.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: modern adj., -ness suffix.

Etymology: < modern adj. + -ness suffix. Compare earlier modernity n.

The quality or state of being modern; advocacy of modern ideas, techniques, etc.; †the fact of belonging to present or recent times, recentness (obsolete).

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > relative time > the present (time) > [noun] > modernity

modernity1635

modernness1653

modernism1772

actualité1839

up-to-dateness1891

up-to-datism1893

topicality1904

presentism1916

up-to-the-minuteness1940

1653 J. Howell (title) A German Diet..wherein the..Antiquity and Modernes of all the Kingdoms and States of Christendom are impartially poiz'd.

1731 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Modernness, newness, the being of late days.

1825 W. Cobbett Rural Rides in Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 26 Nov. 521 The Bridewell, which, from the modernness of its structure, appears to be [etc.].

1835 Fraser's Mag. 12 650 Though he should..outlive his modernness as much as George Coleman the Younger has outlived his youth.

1874 J. P. Mahaffy Social Life Greece ix. 278 The fact remains a very curious monument of the modernness of Attic life.

1905 Athenæum 16 Sept. 362/3 The ‘modernness’ of thought shown in Jevons's mode of handling his subject.

1994 A. Theroux Primary Colors 109 The publisher's prospectus announced it would ‘have the courage of its modernness, and not tremble at the frown of Mrs. Grundy’.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	modernness
释义	modernnessn. Brit. /ˈmɒd(ə)nnəs/, U.S. /ˈmɑdər(n)nəs/ Forms: 1600s modernes, 1700s– modernness. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: modern adj., -ness suffix. Etymology: < modern adj. + -ness suffix. Compare earlier modernity n. The quality or state of being modern; advocacy of modern ideas, techniques, etc.; †the fact of belonging to present or recent times, recentness (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the present (time) > [noun] > modernity modernity1635 modernness1653 modernism1772 actualité1839 up-to-dateness1891 up-to-datism1893 topicality1904 presentism1916 up-to-the-minuteness1940 1653 J. Howell (title) A German Diet..wherein the..Antiquity and Modernes of all the Kingdoms and States of Christendom are impartially poiz'd. 1731 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Modernness, newness, the being of late days. 1825 W. Cobbett Rural Rides in Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 26 Nov. 521 The Bridewell, which, from the modernness of its structure, appears to be [etc.]. 1835 Fraser's Mag. 12 650 Though he should..outlive his modernness as much as George Coleman the Younger has outlived his youth. 1874 J. P. Mahaffy Social Life Greece ix. 278 The fact remains a very curious monument of the modernness of Attic life. 1905 Athenæum 16 Sept. 362/3 The ‘modernness’ of thought shown in Jevons's mode of handling his subject. 1994 A. Theroux Primary Colors 109 The publisher's prospectus announced it would ‘have the courage of its modernness, and not tremble at the frown of Mrs. Grundy’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1653
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