Antonyms for modernity
mɒˈdɜr nɪ ti, moʊ-moder·ni·ty

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1. modernity, modernness, modernism, contemporaneity, contemporaneousnessnoun

   the quality of being current or of the present

   "a shopping mall would instill a spirit of modernity into this village"

   Synonyms:
   modernism, contemporaneousness, contemporaneity, modernness

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1. antiquity

   Submitted by rinat on September 22, 2019  

How to use modernity in a sentence?

1. Paul de Man:

   Modernity exists in the form of a desire to wipe out whatever came earlier, in the hope of reaching at least a point that could be called a true present, a point of origin that marks a new departure.

2. Puig Saura:

   Life, from birth to death, happens on the streets, and there is also this fabulous mix of tradition and modernity, European influence and Asian character.

3. Paul de Man:

   The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear -- and even, in certain respects, would be -- the most modern of critical movements.

4. Patrick Mouratoglou:

   I mean different tennis. Taking into consideration what was better back in the 1970s and the 80s and also bringing some modernity, i'm excited to showcase that and to see if this is much more attractive to the younger generation.

5. Charles Baudelaire:

   Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.

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