modern times
The contemporary period
Modern times refers generally to the present era or recent history, as opposed to ancient or medieval periods.
The phrase emphasizes contemporary life with its particular conditions, technologies, and social arrangements: In modern times, we take electricity for granted.
It often carries implicit contrast with how things used to be done.
Of this era
Applied scientific methods
- innovationCreating something original
- advancementForward movement or promotion
- digitizationAnalog-to-electronic transformation
- urbanizationPopulation shift toward cities
efficiency · invention · development · infrastructure · electrification
Transition to factory-based economy
- post-warAfter military conflict ends
- interwarBetween major conflicts
- fin-de-siècleCentury's closing period
Preoccupation with acquiring goods
- surveillanceSystematic observation of subjects
- bureaucracyRigid administrative system
- burnoutChronic occupational depletion
present-day
Of this era
technology
Applied scientific methods
- innovationCreating something original
- advancementForward movement or promotion
- digitizationAnalog-to-electronic transformation
urbanization · efficiency · invention · development · infrastructure · electrification
industrialization
Transition to factory-based economy
- post-warAfter military conflict ends
- interwarBetween major conflicts
- fin-de-siècleCentury's closing period
consumerism
Preoccupation with acquiring goods
- surveillanceSystematic observation of subjects
- bureaucracyRigid administrative system
- burnoutChronic occupational depletion
- time wordsminute, hour, day, now, soon
- time sayingstime flies, time is money, time heals all wounds, time will tell, carpe diem
- nownow, present, moment, instant, today
modern timesancient times
Long-ago historical era
antiquity · ancient history · prehistoric times · olden days · bygone era
modern timesbehind the times
Not current or modern
outdated · old-fashioned · out of date · obsolete · antiquated
modern, times, modernize, modernized, ultramodern, modernity, modernization, postmodern, modernizer