modernness

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

modernness
    n 1: the quality of being current or of the present; "a shopping
         mall would instill a spirit of modernity into this village"
         [syn: {modernity}, {modernness}, {modernism},
         {contemporaneity}, {contemporaneousness}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Modernness \Mod"ern*ness\, n.
   The quality or state of being modern; recentness; novelty.
   --M. Arnold.
   [1913 Webster]