Hypertext Webster Gateway: "recency"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Recency \Re"cen*cy\, n. [LL. recentia, fr. L. recens. See
{Recent}.]
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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
recency
n 1: a time immediately before the present [syn: {recentness}]
2: the property of having happened or appeared not long ago
[syn: {recentness}]
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