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]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]