noun
- Genre of art and literature that makes a self-conscious break with previous genres.
- The quality of being current or of the present.
- usage: "a shopping mall would instill a spirit of modernity into this village"
- synonyms: modernity, modernness, contemporaneity, contemporaneousness
- Practices typical of contemporary life or thought. .
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