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单词 modernity
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Definition of modernity in English:

modernity

noun məˈdəːnɪtiməˈdərnədi
mass noun
  • 1The quality or condition of being modern.

    an aura of technological modernity
    Example sentencesExamples
    • In Scotland, however, the old code remained legal and came to be viewed simultaneously as a relic of outmoded ways of life and as a sign of modernity.
    • In more urban areas, a mixture of tradition and modernity is reflected in the architecture.
    • We acknowledge the glamour and modernity of eating and drinking in American cities by slavishly imitating them in ours.
    • A deft combination of old and new materials as well as natural and artificial lighting juxtaposes chic modernity with a setting that embodies the spirit of the collection.
    • In the foreign-language countries, English has great importance as an Asian and international lingua franca, in tourism, a reading language for technical subjects, and a token of modernity.
    • I am dumbly entranced by what appears to be an increasing fusion of images of Indian tradition and global modernity, in the flow of advertising, music clips and movie sequences.
    • The great changes of modernity mean that none of us can be religious in the same way as our ancestors.
    • Dynamic and cosmopolitan, Barcelona is an icon of modernity and design.
    • Islam is, in some ways, I think, at war with itself in terms of its root and its modernity.
    • Like the lost tribesmen of New Guinea, the inhabitants of Tibet were, it was here predicted, soon to enter into modernity.
    • Both setting and hero visualize and glamorize a modernity of sophistication, leisure, social mobility, and consumption.
    • Here he fuses a romantic, even primitive, vision with a powerful sense of modernity.
    • Hence large commercial buildings and the majority of urban public buildings show an amalgam of invented tradition and modernity, combining stone with iron and large surfaces of glass.
    Synonyms
    contemporaneity, contemporaneousness, modernness, modernism, currency, freshness, novelty, fashionableness, vogue
    informal trendiness, coolness, snazziness
    1. 1.1 A modern way of thinking, working, etc.; contemporariness.
      Hobbes was the genius of modernity
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Though the founders differed on many things, they shared these values of what was then modernity.
      • Fundamentalism is a revolt against modernity and one of the characteristics of modernity has been the emancipation of women.
      • In the Philosophy of Right Hegel explores the forms of right which constitute political modernity while in Capital Marx explores the forms of value which constitute economic modernity.
      • This is difficult to accept in Europe because our intellectuals were always convinced that modernity brings with itself the extinction of religious faith.
      • Predictably, Kipling railed against most aspects of modernity, such as jazz and psychoanalysis.
      • Building on insights drawn from Vatican II, it encourages an understanding of a possible Catholic modernity grounded not in itself but in the transcendent.
      • For centuries, secular intellectuals have forecast the death of religion at the hands of modernity.
      • Some concession to modernity is apparent in both the kitchen and the adjoining conservatory cum breakfast room.
      • This distinction between genuine versus spurious traditions, which maps directly onto the broader dichotomy between tradition and modernity, has dangerous implications for indigenous and Creole struggles.
      • Even so, the two poles reject the analytical spirit of modernity, to which they oppose a synthetic approach.
      • This is not to argue that everything about modernity is rational or desirable.
      • From theological fights to integration, from gender issues to struggles with modernity, nearly every important matter in the history of the denomination was typified in Alabama.
      • It represents, to this extent, a moral demand and a moral achievement of modernity.
      • Even among those not ideologically inclined towards communism there were some who were so disenchanted with the past that they regarded the communists as representing modernity and a better future.
      • The monks clearly embrace modernity with enthusiasm.
      • It is this that makes it the only religion indigestible to modernity.
      • Fundamentalists, be they Christian, Jewish or Muslim, begin by fighting their own co-religionists, who they believe are making too many concessions to modernity.
      • There is no contradiction between faith and modernity and the two can, and indeed must, be reconciled.
      • Ultimately, then, Song of Ceylon imparts the message that nature and native traditions can coexist harmoniously with modernity.
      • Public transportation no longer has to be identified with the constraints of work, but rather must be assimilated within the urban fabric, a major task for modernity.

Rhymes

confraternity, eternity, fraternity, maternity, paternity, taciturnity

Definition of modernity in US English:

modernity

nounməˈdərnədēməˈdərnədi
  • 1The quality or condition of being modern.

    an aura of technological modernity
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Hence large commercial buildings and the majority of urban public buildings show an amalgam of invented tradition and modernity, combining stone with iron and large surfaces of glass.
    • Islam is, in some ways, I think, at war with itself in terms of its root and its modernity.
    • Dynamic and cosmopolitan, Barcelona is an icon of modernity and design.
    • The great changes of modernity mean that none of us can be religious in the same way as our ancestors.
    • Both setting and hero visualize and glamorize a modernity of sophistication, leisure, social mobility, and consumption.
    • In the foreign-language countries, English has great importance as an Asian and international lingua franca, in tourism, a reading language for technical subjects, and a token of modernity.
    • In Scotland, however, the old code remained legal and came to be viewed simultaneously as a relic of outmoded ways of life and as a sign of modernity.
    • Here he fuses a romantic, even primitive, vision with a powerful sense of modernity.
    • Like the lost tribesmen of New Guinea, the inhabitants of Tibet were, it was here predicted, soon to enter into modernity.
    • I am dumbly entranced by what appears to be an increasing fusion of images of Indian tradition and global modernity, in the flow of advertising, music clips and movie sequences.
    • In more urban areas, a mixture of tradition and modernity is reflected in the architecture.
    • A deft combination of old and new materials as well as natural and artificial lighting juxtaposes chic modernity with a setting that embodies the spirit of the collection.
    • We acknowledge the glamour and modernity of eating and drinking in American cities by slavishly imitating them in ours.
    Synonyms
    contemporaneity, contemporaneousness, modernness, modernism, currency, freshness, novelty, fashionableness, vogue
    1. 1.1 A modern way of thinking, working, etc.; contemporariness.
      Hobbes was the genius of modernity
      Example sentencesExamples
      • This is not to argue that everything about modernity is rational or desirable.
      • From theological fights to integration, from gender issues to struggles with modernity, nearly every important matter in the history of the denomination was typified in Alabama.
      • It represents, to this extent, a moral demand and a moral achievement of modernity.
      • In the Philosophy of Right Hegel explores the forms of right which constitute political modernity while in Capital Marx explores the forms of value which constitute economic modernity.
      • Even so, the two poles reject the analytical spirit of modernity, to which they oppose a synthetic approach.
      • Some concession to modernity is apparent in both the kitchen and the adjoining conservatory cum breakfast room.
      • Building on insights drawn from Vatican II, it encourages an understanding of a possible Catholic modernity grounded not in itself but in the transcendent.
      • This distinction between genuine versus spurious traditions, which maps directly onto the broader dichotomy between tradition and modernity, has dangerous implications for indigenous and Creole struggles.
      • For centuries, secular intellectuals have forecast the death of religion at the hands of modernity.
      • Even among those not ideologically inclined towards communism there were some who were so disenchanted with the past that they regarded the communists as representing modernity and a better future.
      • It is this that makes it the only religion indigestible to modernity.
      • There is no contradiction between faith and modernity and the two can, and indeed must, be reconciled.
      • Fundamentalists, be they Christian, Jewish or Muslim, begin by fighting their own co-religionists, who they believe are making too many concessions to modernity.
      • Fundamentalism is a revolt against modernity and one of the characteristics of modernity has been the emancipation of women.
      • Ultimately, then, Song of Ceylon imparts the message that nature and native traditions can coexist harmoniously with modernity.
      • Though the founders differed on many things, they shared these values of what was then modernity.
      • This is difficult to accept in Europe because our intellectuals were always convinced that modernity brings with itself the extinction of religious faith.
      • Public transportation no longer has to be identified with the constraints of work, but rather must be assimilated within the urban fabric, a major task for modernity.
      • Predictably, Kipling railed against most aspects of modernity, such as jazz and psychoanalysis.
      • The monks clearly embrace modernity with enthusiasm.
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