modernity
modernity
Definition
mo·der·nity (mä dʉr′nə tē, mə-)
noun
- the state or quality of being modern
- pl. modernities -·ties something modern
modernity
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- rethink: Leicester: NIACE, 2000 The reinvention of politics: rethinking modernity in the global social order.
- call: He was impatient, blunt, and frankly hostile to much of what we are pleased to call modernity.
- bring: Baudelaire wanted to change all this and bring modernity into poetry and painting.
- emphasize: Then ' spec ' it up with taps that either emphasize modernity or tradition.
- define: The Palace represented a huge technological advance in building, a talismanic edifice which defined modernity in architecture for a century or more.
Adjective modifier
- Western: Neither of these has much in common with the atheism characteristic of Western modernity, which draws much of its energy from moral protest.
- capitalist: This also requires a clearer understanding of development theory and to be positioned as a form of critical engagement with capitalist modernity.
- secular: You may say that secular modernity does not look particularly religious.
- colonial: It [ signaled ] instead the uneven and unlooked-for terrains of colonial modernity itself ( p. 99 ).
- liquid: But the opposition between heavy and liquid modernity does seem rather overstated.
Preposition: in
- century: Among the most well-known was Descartes ' attempt to give " grounding " to science and modernity in the 17th century.
- order: Leicester: NIACE, 2000 The reinvention of politics: rethinking modernity in the global social order.
- world: Apparently, China is set to become ' the biggest showpiece for modernity in the world ' .
- culture: And of course he himself flirted with all the medievalist hostility to modernity in the culture around him.
- art: This is meant to be thought-provoking, dramatically original, and the best of modernity in British art.
modernity Quotes
The historic destiny of the Irish is being fulfilled on the other side of the Atlantic, where they have settled in their millions, bringing with them all their ancient grudges and the melancholy of the bogs, but also their hard, ancient wisdom. Theyalone of the newcomers are never fora moment taken in by themultifarious frauds of modernity. They have been changed from peasants and soldiers into townsmen. They have learned some of the superficial habits of 'good citizenship', but at heart they remain the same adroit and joyless race that broke the hearts of all who ever tried to help them.
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