指“现代的”、“近代的”
the quality of being current or of the present
同义词： modernity / modernism / contemporaneity / contemporaneousness
现代体，现代罗马体，现代式印刷字型
现代体的，现代罗马体的
... newness崭新 contemporaneity同时代 modernness现代性 ...
The repeated emergence of conservatism reflects Chinese intellectuals' worry over modernness.
保守主义的屡屡兴起，体现了中国知识分子的现代性焦虑。
The modernness of the tone is the thing that will strike most readers apart from these contrasts.
除了这些鲜明反差之外，打动大多数读者内心的东西就是其音调的现代性。
The debates about ancientness and modernness between Minturno and Cinthio in the Italian Renaissance and seven men of letters in the Ming Dynasty of China are the two typical ones.
发生在文艺复兴时期意大利的明屠尔诺与钦提奥的古今之争和发生在中国明朝的前、后七子的古今之辨，是其中两个具有代表性的事件。
Let me say more about what I mean by approaching the question of his modernness, his modernity, from the point of view of his subjects.
让我解释一下我的意思,通过探寻他现代性的问题，从他的主题方面入手。
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