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RECENTNESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The property of having happened or appeared not long ago
Synonyms:
recency; recentness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("recentness" is a kind of...):
newness (the quality of being new; the opposite of oldness)
Derivation:
recent (new)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A time immediately before the present
Synonyms:
recency; recentness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("recentness" is a kind of...):
pastness (the quality of being past)
Derivation:
recent (of the immediate past or just previous to the present time)
