| 单词 | modernity |
| 释义 | modernity (once / 8169 pages) n Use the noun modernity when you're talking about the newness of something, like the modernity of the new, sleek skyscraper in your city. When something is contemporary — it feels like it belongs in the present day — you might take note of its modernity. Sometimes people use the word to discuss something old that's becoming more modern, or attempting to find its place today. You could talk about the balance between tradition and modernity in the Hindu faith, for example. The root of modernity is the Latin word modernus, "modern." WORD FAMILYmodernity: modernities+/modern: modernise, modernism, modernity, modernize, modernly, modernness, moderns, nonmodern, postmodern/modernisation: modernisations/modernise: modernisation, modernised, modernises, modernising/modernised: unmodernised/modernism: modernisms, modernist, modernistic/modernist: modernists/modernistic: modernistically/modernization: modernizations/modernize: modernization, modernized, modernizes, modernizing/modernized: unmodernized/postmodern: postmodernism/postmodernism: postmodernist USAGE EXAMPLESA new nod to modernity in French laws eases the rules for people who want to divorce. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) “If we cling to the concept of ‘globalisation’, we should not see it as a continuous and uninterrupted march toward an imaginary ‘global modernity’. The Guardian(Dec 29, 2016) THE kingdom presented its shift from the Islamic to the Gregorian calendar as a leap into modernity. Economist(Dec 15, 2016) n the quality of being current or of the present a shopping mall would instill a spirit of modernity into this village Syn|Hyper contemporaneity, contemporaneousness, modernism, modernness currency, currentness, up-to-dateness the property of belonging to the present time |
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