Meaning of modernity in English
(Definition of modernity from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of modernity
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As a result, philosophical modernity assumes that human beings are merely a higher form of animal life resulting from a slow evolutionary process.
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Especially in the field of witchcraft studies, an important part of ongoing debates centres around the ' modernity ' of witchcraft.
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However, the old classical norms still operated in the midst of modernity, as is clear from a glance at contemporary dramatic criticism.
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She outlines the relationship between modernity and the ' popular ', one of the principal thematic strands that links the essays together.
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While modernity may have gone wrong, while it may not have yielded the culture, affinities, and social promises it intended, it is still modernity.
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He succeeded in reuniting tradition and modernity, and in making measure useful and meaningful once again.
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Both, however, insist that an understanding of the modern occult will change how we understand modernity.
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Women play a crucial role in material expressions of the identity of pastoral groups, in power relations, local knowledge, social relations, and modernity.
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Second, it gets at a kind of cultural/musical formation which is typical of globalising modernity.
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The success of the project is in inverse proportion to its ambition - and these essays attempt a complete theological overturning of secular modernity.
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The later "developmentalisms" of post-independence states were also subjected to new scrutiny in the light of a critical rethinking of modernity.
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This is why archaeology, like anthropology, is always an (indirect) commentary on modernity.
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Rather, they consider the centralization and reform efforts of the 19th century as the major instruments responsible for progression toward modernity.
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Fashion, acute time-aware dress sense as a form of self-statement, perhaps did indeed have close links with modernity.
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But it is a rewriting that yields a nicely ironic conclusion to the story told here, of the coincidences and conflicts between modernism and modernity.
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