modernityn.

Brit.

/məˈdəːnᵻti/, U.S.

/məˈdərnədi/,

/mɑˈdɛrnədi/

Forms: 1600s modernitie, 1700s– modernity.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation; probably modelled on a Latin lexical item. Etymons: modern adj., -ity suffix.

Etymology: < modern adj. + -ity suffix, probably after post-classical Latin modernitat-, modernitas (12th cent. in British and continental sources). Compare Italian modernita (1620), Portuguese modernidade (17th cent.), French modernité (1823), Spanish modernidad (1905).

a. The quality or condition of being modern; modernness of character or style.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > relative time > the present (time) > [noun] > modernity

modernity1635

modernness1653

modernism1772

actualité1839

up-to-dateness1891

up-to-datism1893

topicality1904

presentism1916

up-to-the-minuteness1940

1635 G. Hakewill Apologie (ed. 3) v. 192 Yea but I vilifie the present times, you say, whiles I expect a more flourishing state to succeed; bee it so, yet this is not to vilifie modernitie, as you pretend.

1782 H. Walpole Let. to W. Cole 22 Feb. (1858) VIII. 161 Now that the poems [sc. Chatterton's] have been so much examined, nobody (that has an ear) can get over the modernity of the modulations.

1796 S. Pegge Anonymiana (1809) 429 Macrobius is no good author to follow in point of Latinity, partly on account of his modernity, and partly of his foreign extraction.

1883 Harper's Mag. Mar. 537/1 A very old inn, that seemed suffering the first pangs of being galvanized back to life and modernity.

1888 Athenæum 31 Mar. 401/3 Those unlucky stumblings into modernity which some archaizing translators do not avoid.

1904 M. Sinclair Div. Fire 415 My dear fellow, modernity simply means democracy. And when once democracy has been forced on us there's no good protesting any longer.

1923 National Geographic Mag. Apr. 395/2 In their modernity..no other stations in the world claim as much interest from the public generally as the Pennsylvania and Grand Central stations, in New York.

1971 S. Howatch Penmarric (1972) v. i. 551 I have a series of blurred memories of a London blazing with modernity—cocktails, nightclubs, jazz bands.

1989 Mod. Painters Autumn 74/1 A painter was free to place more or less stress on modernity and innovation without having his creative virility impugned.

2006 M. Crang in C. Minca & T. Oates Trav. in Paradox ii. 49 It would be difficult to imagine a modernity without tourism, since tourism contributes precisely to a sense of modernity.

b. spec. An intellectual tendency or social perspective characterized by departure from or repudiation of traditional ideas, doctrines, and cultural values in favour of contemporary or radical values and beliefs (chiefly those of scientific rationalism and liberalism).The earlier quots. illustrate the development of this sense from mainly critical or depreciative use of sense 1a. Cf. modernism n. 3, 4.

ΚΠ

1900 Q. Rev. Apr. 321 Mere modernity..involved the complete jettison of every restraining principle in language, metre, and morals.

1906 Mind 15 402 There is a wholesome absence of modernity in Mr. Galloway's refusal..to make religion (or philosophy, for that matter) geo-centric.

1918 Polit. Sci. Q. 33 122 To say that it exalts medievalism, deplores modernity, and lures the reader on from sparkling epigram to startling if at times strained paradox, is merely to report that Chesterton is still Chesterton.]

1931 Jrnl. Philos. 28 268 A last chapter upholds the validity of a religious attitude against the ‘idols of modernity’, that is, against the ‘reduction-fallacies’ that spring from an unwarranted use of the results of the natural sciences.

1958 J. McAuley End Modernity 57 In the nineteenth century the Christian residues..are systematically expelled under the action of naturalism, scientism and materialism, so that in the twentieth century ‘modernity’ stands forth in brutal self-confidence as atheist, technolatrous, ruthless totalitarianism.

1986 N. de Lange Judaism ii. 33 This quest for compromise between tradition and modernity may be seen as characteristic of Conservative Judaism, which is inherently pragmatic, and strives to avoid the dogmatism of the more extreme movements.

1990 Marxism Today Feb. 21/3 Between socialism and modernity there was no quarrel.

1999 A. Burton (title) Gender, sexuality and colonial modernities.

2. Something that is modern; a modern example of something.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > relative time > the present (time) > [noun] > modernity > something that is modern

modern1735

modernism1737

modernity1753

contemporary1962

1753 H. Walpole Corr. Sept. (1973) XXXV. 154 But here is a modernity, which beats all antiquities for curiosity.

1884 Harper's Mag. Dec. 80/1 After he had..arranged himself in these modernities.

1904 A. C. Fox-Davies Art Heraldry xvii. 154/2 Earlier artists were in no way fettered by any supposed necessity for making their pictures realistic representations. Realism is a modernity.

1953 R. Fuller Second Curtain iv. 61 The quart bottle of beer, the Penguin greenback, incongruous modernities.

2007 F. O'Gorman Victorian Lit. & Finance iv. 88 The brevity and speed of telegraphic news, seen in ‘Mother and Poet’ as inhumanely abrupt and relentless, like the bullet itself, is a modernity humanized by Barrett Browning's political poetics.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	modernity
释义	modernityn. Brit. /məˈdəːnᵻti/, U.S. /məˈdərnədi/, /mɑˈdɛrnədi/ Forms: 1600s modernitie, 1700s– modernity. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation; probably modelled on a Latin lexical item. Etymons: modern adj., -ity suffix. Etymology: < modern adj. + -ity suffix, probably after post-classical Latin modernitat-, modernitas (12th cent. in British and continental sources). Compare Italian modernita (1620), Portuguese modernidade (17th cent.), French modernité (1823), Spanish modernidad (1905). 1. a. The quality or condition of being modern; modernness of character or style. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the present (time) > [noun] > modernity modernity1635 modernness1653 modernism1772 actualité1839 up-to-dateness1891 up-to-datism1893 topicality1904 presentism1916 up-to-the-minuteness1940 1635 G. Hakewill Apologie (ed. 3) v. 192 Yea but I vilifie the present times, you say, whiles I expect a more flourishing state to succeed; bee it so, yet this is not to vilifie modernitie, as you pretend. 1782 H. Walpole Let. to W. Cole 22 Feb. (1858) VIII. 161 Now that the poems [sc. Chatterton's] have been so much examined, nobody (that has an ear) can get over the modernity of the modulations. 1796 S. Pegge Anonymiana (1809) 429 Macrobius is no good author to follow in point of Latinity, partly on account of his modernity, and partly of his foreign extraction. 1883 Harper's Mag. Mar. 537/1 A very old inn, that seemed suffering the first pangs of being galvanized back to life and modernity. 1888 Athenæum 31 Mar. 401/3 Those unlucky stumblings into modernity which some archaizing translators do not avoid. 1904 M. Sinclair Div. Fire 415 My dear fellow, modernity simply means democracy. And when once democracy has been forced on us there's no good protesting any longer. 1923 National Geographic Mag. Apr. 395/2 In their modernity..no other stations in the world claim as much interest from the public generally as the Pennsylvania and Grand Central stations, in New York. 1971 S. Howatch Penmarric (1972) v. i. 551 I have a series of blurred memories of a London blazing with modernity—cocktails, nightclubs, jazz bands. 1989 Mod. Painters Autumn 74/1 A painter was free to place more or less stress on modernity and innovation without having his creative virility impugned. 2006 M. Crang in C. Minca & T. Oates Trav. in Paradox ii. 49 It would be difficult to imagine a modernity without tourism, since tourism contributes precisely to a sense of modernity. b. spec. An intellectual tendency or social perspective characterized by departure from or repudiation of traditional ideas, doctrines, and cultural values in favour of contemporary or radical values and beliefs (chiefly those of scientific rationalism and liberalism).The earlier quots. illustrate the development of this sense from mainly critical or depreciative use of sense 1a. Cf. modernism n. 3, 4. ΚΠ 1900 Q. Rev. Apr. 321 Mere modernity..involved the complete jettison of every restraining principle in language, metre, and morals. 1906 Mind 15 402 There is a wholesome absence of modernity in Mr. Galloway's refusal..to make religion (or philosophy, for that matter) geo-centric. 1918 Polit. Sci. Q. 33 122 To say that it exalts medievalism, deplores modernity, and lures the reader on from sparkling epigram to startling if at times strained paradox, is merely to report that Chesterton is still Chesterton.] 1931 Jrnl. Philos. 28 268 A last chapter upholds the validity of a religious attitude against the ‘idols of modernity’, that is, against the ‘reduction-fallacies’ that spring from an unwarranted use of the results of the natural sciences. 1958 J. McAuley End Modernity 57 In the nineteenth century the Christian residues..are systematically expelled under the action of naturalism, scientism and materialism, so that in the twentieth century ‘modernity’ stands forth in brutal self-confidence as atheist, technolatrous, ruthless totalitarianism. 1986 N. de Lange Judaism ii. 33 This quest for compromise between tradition and modernity may be seen as characteristic of Conservative Judaism, which is inherently pragmatic, and strives to avoid the dogmatism of the more extreme movements. 1990 Marxism Today Feb. 21/3 Between socialism and modernity there was no quarrel. 1999 A. Burton (title) Gender, sexuality and colonial modernities. 2. Something that is modern; a modern example of something. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the present (time) > [noun] > modernity > something that is modern modern1735 modernism1737 modernity1753 contemporary1962 1753 H. Walpole Corr. Sept. (1973) XXXV. 154 But here is a modernity, which beats all antiquities for curiosity. 1884 Harper's Mag. Dec. 80/1 After he had..arranged himself in these modernities. 1904 A. C. Fox-Davies Art Heraldry xvii. 154/2 Earlier artists were in no way fettered by any supposed necessity for making their pictures realistic representations. Realism is a modernity. 1953 R. Fuller Second Curtain iv. 61 The quart bottle of beer, the Penguin greenback, incongruous modernities. 2007 F. O'Gorman Victorian Lit. & Finance iv. 88 The brevity and speed of telegraphic news, seen in ‘Mother and Poet’ as inhumanely abrupt and relentless, like the bullet itself, is a modernity humanized by Barrett Browning's political poetics. 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