recency
noun
the fact of being recent, of having occurred a relatively short time ago; closeness of a past event to a later past time or to the present.
Example Sentences
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His expertise is measured instead by the number and recentness of trips he has taken to the country.
From Newsweek ● Apr. 15, 2013
How often had he faced a widowed mother and her daughter, in mourning so deep as to suggest the recentness of their loss.
From Cobwebs and Cables by Hesba Stretton
But first, in order that this colossal adventure may be fully grasped, the recentness and the remoteness of Alaska must be emphasized.
From Revolution, and Other Essays by Jack London
At present, their minds are somewhat unsettled by the recentness of their progress; and in the exuberance consequent on such a state, some danger is to be apprehended.
From The Idler in France by Marguerite, Countess of Blessington
They had, indeed, lived a long time ago, but this was no disadvantage: any one who reads Tatian's Oratio ad Graecos can see how antiquity, not recentness, was regarded as desirable.
From Landmarks in the History of Early Christianity by Kirsopp Lake
