up-to-date

(ŭp′tə-dāt′)

adj.

1. Informed of or reflecting the latest information or changes: an up-to-date timetable.

2. Being in accord with the latest ideas, improvements, or styles: up-to-date technology; up-to-date fashions.

up′-to-date′ness n.

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Noun

up-to-dateness - the property of belonging to the present time; "the currency of a slang term"

currentness, currency

nowness, presentness - the quality of being the present; "a study of the pastness of the present and...of the presentness of the past"- R.E.Spiller

contemporaneity, contemporaneousness, modernity, modernness, modernism - the quality of being current or of the present; "a shopping mall would instill a spirit of modernity into this village"

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Everywhere the scholarly up-to-dateness of the secondary sources used in the discussion is a notable feature.

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