modernity

Etymology

From Latin modernitās or modern + -ity.

noun

1. The quality of being modern or contemporary.
   He was impressed by the architecture's modernity.
   While the rolling-stock lacks modernity, the line equipment, with its single catenary suspension, has a surprisingly up-to-date appearance. 1944 November and December, “Notes and News: Lancaster-Heysham Electrification, L.M.S.”, in Railway Magazine, page 372
   There were also particles no one had predicted that just appeared. Five of them […, i]n order of increasing modernity, […] are the neutrino, the pi meson, the antiproton, the quark and the Higgs boson. 2012 March-April, Jeremy Bernstein, “A Palette of Particles”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 146
2. Modern times.
   The organization survived from ancient times to modernity.
3. (history) Quality of being of the modern period of contemporary historiography.