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
It is sufficient to have related events which the recentness of your intercourse with her hindered you from knowing but by means of some formal narrative like the present.
From Ormond, Volume III (of 3) or, The Secret Witness by Charles Brockden Brown
In the list of names upon the outer doors of the firm's vast labyrinthine suite, on the seventeenth floor of the Syndicate Building, his name came last—and, in the newest lettering, suggesting recentness of partnership.
From The Grain of Dust by David Graham Phillips
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
And its recentness in human history may account for some of our blindness to this great fact.
From How to Analyze People on Sight Through the Science of Human Analysis: The Five Human Types by Elsie Lincoln Benedict
