RECENCY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does recency mean? 

• RECENCY (noun)
  The noun RECENCY has 2 senses:

1. a time immediately before the present

2. the property of having happened or appeared not long ago

  Familiarity information: RECENCY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RECENCY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A time immediately before the present

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

recency; recentness

Hypernyms ("recency" is a kind of...):

pastness (the quality of being past)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The property of having happened or appeared not long ago

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

recency; recentness

Hypernyms ("recency" is a kind of...):

newness (the quality of being new; the opposite of oldness)

Derivation:

recent (new)

recent (of the immediate past or just previous to the present time)