modernity

大学 FREQ #41496

n. 现代性, 现代状态, 现代东西

发音

UK /məˈdɜːnɪti/
其它
US /məˈdɝnɪti/
IN /mɵˈɖɜ(r)nɪʈi/
IN /ˈmɔɖə(r)nɪʈi/

词形变化

modernities 复数 modernities

教材释义与例句

名词

现代性；现代的东西；新式

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    The quality of being modern or contemporary.

    现代性

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    He was impressed by the architecture's modernity.

  2. 2.

    Modern times.

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    The organization survived from ancient times to modernity.

  3. 3.

    Quality of being of the modern period of contemporary historiography.

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词汇关系

名词

同义词 4

modernism contemporaneity contemporaneousness modernness

上位词 3

currency currentness up-to-dateness

下位词 2

contemporariness ultramodernity

相关短语

late modernity behavioural modernity high modernity

词源

From modern + -ity, a calque of Latin modernitās.

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