Synonyms:
modernity, modernness, modernism, contemporaneity, contemporaneousness
Meaning: the quality of being current or of the present; "a shopping mall would instill a spirit of modernity into this village"
Usage examples
You hear the jingle of keys, the flick of the whip and the rattle of the lawnmower; and a cold, secret fear takes possession of you--a sort of half-frenzied impulse to flee, before smug modernity takes you captive and whisks you off to play tiddledywinks or to dance the racquet.