Associations to the word «Modernity»

Wiktionary

MODERNITY, noun. The quality of being modern or contemporary.
MODERNITY, noun. Modern times.
MODERNITY, noun. (history) Quality of being of the modern period of contemporary historiography.

Dictionary definition

MODERNITY, noun. The quality of being current or of the present; "a shopping mall would instill a spirit of modernity into this village".

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne