recency
/'ri:snsi/
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Definition
Noun 1. The quality or state of being recent; the fact of having happened, appeared, or been done not long ago. This refers to the temporal proximity of an event or thing to the present moment. 2. A time period immediately before the present. This refers to the recent past as a distinct timeframe.
Usage and Examples
- The recency of the software update means all the security patches are current.
- In memory studies, the recency effect describes how people best remember the last items in a list.
- The news report emphasized the recency of the scientific discovery.
- Due to the recency of his promotion, he is still adjusting to his new responsibilities.
Advanced Usage
- Recency Bias: A cognitive bias where people give more weight to recent events or information over older ones, even if the older information is more relevant or significant.
- Investors must guard against recency bias, or they might make poor decisions based only on last quarter's performance.
- In recency: A formal phrase meaning "recently" or "in recent times."
- Several policy changes have been enacted in recency.
Variants and Related Words
- Recent (adjective): Happening or beginning not long ago.
- Recent developments have changed the situation.
- Recently (adverb): At a recent time; not long ago.
- I saw her recently.
Synonyms
- Newness
- Currentness
- Freshness
- Modernity
Antonyms
- Antiquity
- Remoteness (in time)
- Oldness
Noun
- the property of having happened or appeared not long ago
- a time immediately before the present