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- Dictionarymodernity/məˈdəːnɪti/
noun
- 1. the quality or condition of being modern: "an aura of technological modernity"
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Both a historical period and the ensemble of particular socio-cultural norms, attitudes and practices
Modernity, a topic in the humanities and social sciences, is both a historical period and the ensemble of particular socio-cultural norms, attitudes and practices that arose in the wake of the Renaissance—in the Age of Reason of 17th-century thought and the 18th-century Enlightenment. Commentators variously consider the era of modernity to have ended by 1930, with World War II in 1945, or as late ... Wikipedia