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Recentness

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re·cent  (rsnt)
adj.
1. Of, belonging to, or occurring at a time immediately before the present.
2. Modern; new.
3. Recent Geology Of, belonging to, or denoting the Holocene Epoch. See Table at geologic time.
[Middle English, new, fresh, from Latin recns, recent-; see ken- in Indo-European roots.]
recen·cy, recent·ness n.
recent·ly adv.
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Noun1.recentness - a time immediately before the present
recency
pastness - the quality of being past
2.recentness - the property of having happened or appeared not long ago
recency
newness - the quality of being new; the opposite of oldness
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