Meanings
plural modernities
- countableuncountableThe quality of being modern or contemporary.
He was impressed by the architecture's modernity.
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While the rolling-stock lacks modernity, the line equipment, with its single catenary suspension, has a surprisingly up-to-date appearance.
1944 November and December, “Notes and News: Lancaster-Heysham Electrification, L.M.S.”, in Railway Magazine, page 372There were also particles no one had predicted that just appeared. Five of them […, i]n order of increasing modernity, […] are the neutrino, the pi meson, the antiproton, the quark and the Higgs boson.
2012 March-April, Jeremy Bernstein, “A Palette of Particles”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 146 - countableuncountablehistoryQuality of being of the modern period of contemporary historiography.
Synonyms & antonyms
nounthe quality of being current or of the present
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Latinmodernitās
- Englishmodernity
From modern + -ity, a calque of Latin modernitās.
More words from Latin
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Afrikaans moderniteit
- moderniteitquality of being modern
Arabic حَدَاثَة
- حَدَاثَة (ḥadāṯa)quality of being modern
Bulgarian съвреме́нност, моде́рност
- съвреме́нност (săvreménnost)modern times
- моде́рност (modérnost)quality of being modern
Catalan modernitat
- modernitatquality of being modern
Chinese Mandarin 現代性 /现代性
- 現代性 /现代性 (xiàndàixìng)quality of being modern
Czech modernost
- modernostquality of being modern
Danish modernitet
- modernitetquality of being modern
Dutch moderniteit
- moderniteitquality of being modern
Finnish nykyaika, nykyaikaisuus
- nykyaikamodern times
- nykyaikaisuusquality of being modern
- moderniusquality of being modern
- moderniusquality of the modern historical period
French modernité
- modernitéquality of being modern
German Modernität
- Modernitätquality of being modern
Greek νεωτερικότητα, νεωτερικότητα
- νεωτερικότητα (neoterikótita)modern times
- νεωτερικότητα (neoterikótita)quality of being modern
Hindi आधुनिक, आधुनिकता
- आधुनिक (ādhunik)modern times
- आधुनिकता (ādhuniktā)quality of being modern
Icelandic nútími
- nútímimodern times
Indonesian modernitas, kemodernan
- modernitasquality of being modern
- kemodernanquality of being modern
Irish nua-aois, nua-aimsearthacht
- nua-aoismodern times
- nua-aimsearthachtquality of being modern
- nua-aoiseachtquality of being modern
Japanese 近代性, 現代性
- 近代性 (kindaisei)quality of being modern
- 現代性 (gendaisei)quality of being modern
- モダニティー (modanitī)quality of being modern
Korean 근대성, 현대성
- 근대성 (geundaeseong)quality of being modern
- 현대성 (hyeondaeseong)quality of being modern
Latin modernitās
- modernitāsquality of being modern
Polish nowożytność, nowoczesność
- nowożytnośćmodern times
- nowoczesnośćquality of being modern
- nowoczesnośćquality of the modern historical period
Portuguese modernidade
- modernidadequality of being modern
Russian совреме́нность, совреме́нность
- совреме́нность (sovreménnostʹ)modern times
- совреме́нность (sovreménnostʹ)quality of being modern
Spanish modernidad
- modernidadquality of being modern
Swedish modernitet, modernitet
- modernitetmodern times
- modernitetquality of being modern
- modernitetquality of the modern historical period
Ukrainian суча́сність, суча́сність
- суча́сність (sučásnistʹ)modern times
- суча́сність (sučásnistʹ)quality of being modern
Welsh moderneiddiwch, modernrwydd
- moderneiddiwchquality of being modern
- modernrwyddquality of being modern
Cite this entry
modernity. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/modernity
“modernity.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/modernity. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “modernity,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/modernity.
Source: modernity on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.