characteristic of the present or the immediate past; contemporary
of or characteristic of a period extending from a particular point in the past to the present time
of or characteristic of the present or the immediate past; contemporary
involving recent techniques, styles, or ideas
modern art
(Modern) constituting the present or most recent period of a language
archaic ordinary; everyday; commonplace
They say miracles are past; and we have our philosophical persons to make modern and familiar things supernatural and causeless — Shakespeare
modernity /moʹduhniti, mə-/ noun
modernness noun
[late Latin modernus from Latin modo just now, from modus measure]