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means The condition of being contemporary and new, especially the historical period and mindset marked by industrialization, secularism, individualism, and the sense that the present has broken decisively from tradition.

from Built from 'modern,' which traces back to Late Latin 'modernus,' itself from 'modo' meaning 'just now' or 'in a recent manner.' Latin speakers coined 'modernus' to mark their own present against antiquity — so the word has always been a kind of temporal flag-planting, a way of saying 'this is now, and now is different.' The '-ity' suffix turns the adjective into an abstract condition, giving you not just 'modern' but the whole state of being so. Fittingly, the word has been re-planted by nearly every generation since, each convinced its own 'now' was the real rupture with the past.