Definition of "modernness" [mod•ern•ness]

• The property of being modern (noun)

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• "To some extent he attained his object, but his success was limited; and his teaching affected by what I can only call a modernness of temperament in me, which no force of tradition wholly destroyed or stifled."
• "He seeks this thing which we may call modernness, for no better word to express the idea presents itself."
• "Characters like Martha add a modernness that the old series lacked."