Antonyms for the phrase "former ages" include contemporary times, present age, modern era, and current generation. While former ages refer to the past, these antonyms denote the current period of time or the present. Contemporary times suggest the present-day and commonly used for modern-day technologies, trends, and lifestyles. The current generation denotes the people who are now living, born during certain years, and belong to a particular age group. The modern era connotes the present-day era that is vastly different from the past, where creative technologies and ideologies have led to significant progress and achievements in various fields of human endeavors.

What are the antonyms for Former ages?

• n.

  • antiquity
  • convention
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  • modernity
  ,
  • newness
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  • now
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• Other relevant words:

• future
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Famous quotes with Former ages

• Freedom from labor itself is not new; it once belonged among the most firmly established privileges of the few. In this instance, it seems as though scientific progress and technical developments had been only taken advantage of to achieve something about which all former ages dreamed but which none had been able to realize.

  Hannah Arendt
• Bull and bear-baiting is not encouraged by persons of rank and opulence in the present day; and when practiced, which rarely happens, it is attended only by the lowest and most despicable part of the people; which plainly indicates a general refinement of manners and prevalency of humanity among the moderns; on the contrary, this barbarous pastime was highly relished by the nobility in former ages, and countenanced by persons of the most exalted rank, without exception even of the fair sex.

  Joseph Strutt
• The Theatre of the Absurd … can be seen as the reflection of what seems to be the attitude most genuinely representative of our own time.  The hallmark of this attitude is its sense that the certitudes and unshakable basic assumptions of former ages have been swept away, that they have been tested and found wanting, that they have been discredited as cheap and somewhat childish illusions.All this was shattered by the war.

  Martin Esslin

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