modernity

modernity
n
modernness, innovation, departure, new departure, neoterism, neologism; novelty, newness, novel idea, Inf. newfangled device or contraption or idea, Inf. new or latest wrinkle, Inf. new slant or twist, Sl. new handle, Fr. dernier cri; vogue, fashion, modishness, fashionableness, latest fashion or fad, Inf. the latest thing, Inf. the rage, Inf. the go, Inf. the last word, Inf. what's happening, Inf. the in thing; new look, newest trend, new trend, Inf. trendiness, modernism.

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