Definition of Recentness

1. Noun. A time immediately before the present.

Exact synonyms: Recency
Generic synonyms: Pastness
Derivative terms: Recent

2. Noun. The property of having happened or appeared not long ago.
Exact synonyms: Recency
Generic synonyms: Newness
Derivative terms: Recent, Recent, Recent

Definition of Recentness

1. n. Quality or state of being recent.

Definition of Recentness

1. Noun. The characteristic of being recent. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Recentness

1. [n -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Recentness

recensions
recensor
recensored
recensoring
recensors
recensorship
recensus
recent
recent memory
recenter
recentered
recentering
recenters
recentest
recently
recentness (current term)
recentnesses
recentralize
recentralized
recentralizes
recentralizing
recentre
recentred
recentres
recentrifuge
recentrifuged
recentrifuges
recentrifuging
recentring
recept

Literary usage of Recentness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Victoria: Late Australia Felix, Or Port Phillip District of New South Wales by William Westgarth (1853)
"Name and Origin of Victoria—Boundaries—recentness of Discovery —Early History—Colonized from Van Diemen's Land—View of that Colony—Batman and ..."

2. A critical and practical elucidation of the Book of common prayer, and by John Shepherd (1817)
"... learned Doctor whose name is unknown, and it is from this defence that Archbishop Usher has proved the then recentness, and nearly ascertained the date, ..."

3. A Handbook of Psychology by John Clark Murray (1890)
"The three qualities upon which, in this law, suggestibility depends, require to be separately considered. (A) recentness. ..."

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