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Definition of Recency
1. Noun. A time immediately before the present.
2. Noun. The property of having happened or appeared not long ago.
Definition of Recency
1. n. The state or quality of being recent; newness; new state; late origin; lateness in time; freshness; as, the recency of a transaction, of a wound, etc.
Definition of Recency
1. Noun. The property of being recent, newness ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Recency
1. the state of being recent [n -CIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Recency
Literary usage of Recency
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of European Philosophy: An Introductory Book by Walter Taylor Marvin (1917)
"The relative recency of civilization.—Man has not always been the man we now behold.
Man sprang from a brute ancestry and took many tens of thousands of ..."
2. The History of European Philosophy: An Introductory Book by Walter Taylor Marvin (1917)
"The relative recency of civilization.—Man has not always been the man we now behold.
Man sprang from a brute ancestry and took many tens of thousands of ..."
3. The Learning Process by Stephen Sheldon Colvin (1911)
"These are generally termed the Laws of Primacy, recency, Frequency and Vividness.
... The Law of recency asserts that, other things being equal, ..."
4. The Learning Process by Stephen Sheldon Colvin (1921)
"These are generally termed the Laws of Primacy, recency, Frequency and Vividness.
... The Law of recency asserts that, other things being equal, ..."
5. Illicit Drug Use, Smoking and Drinking by America's High School Students by Lloyd D. Johnston, Patrick M. O'Malley, Jerald G. Bachman (1993)
"recency of Daily Use • Two-thirds (66%) of those who report ever having been
daily marijuana users (for at least a one-month interval) have smoked that ..."
6. Roger of Wendover's Flowers of History: Comprising the History of England by Roger, Matthew Paris (1849)
"... still rare on account of its recency. Wulfric replied that he did not know
whether he had any of the new coinage or not; upon which the man said, ..."
7. The Theological and Literary Journal (1856)
"tallied by geologists respecting the recency of man's creation. He says: " One
of the points most ..."
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