Modernity

//məˈdɜːnɪti//

"Modernity" in a Sentence (13 examples)

Moreover, the sweeping change brought by modernity and globalization led many Muslims to view the West as hostile to the traditions of Islam.

We must reject any forms of fundamentalism, or racism, or a belief in ethnic superiority that makes our traditional identities irreconcilable with modernity. Instead we need to embrace the tolerance that results from respect of all human beings.

Although Wright’s designs are up to a century old, they retain an air of modernity.

The nation state is a product of modernity.

It has hints of modernity but is well-rooted in tradition.

It took over a hundred thousand years for anatomically modern humans to develop behavioral modernity.

The clash between tradition and modernity is a recurring theme in many literary works.

Modernity has a way of eclipsing, and sometimes even wiping out, tradition. There is a Kurdish anthropologist in northern Iraq who devotes his time and career to saving the traditions of Kurdistan's nomadic shepherds.

The Lancet MMR autism hoax was and is one of the most widespread medical disparities of human modernity.

He was impressed by the architecture's modernity.

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While the rolling-stock lacks modernity, the line equipment, with its single catenary suspension, has a surprisingly up-to-date appearance.

There were also particles no one had predicted that just appeared. Five of them […, i]n order of increasing modernity, […] are the neutrino, the pi meson, the antiproton, the quark and the Higgs boson.

The organization survived from ancient times to modernity.

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