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RECENTNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does recentness mean? 

RECENTNESS (noun)
  The noun RECENTNESS has 2 senses:

1. a time immediately before the presentplay

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

  Familiarity information: RECENTNESS used as a noun is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


RECENTNESS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A time immediately before the present

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

recency; recentness

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)


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 ("recentness" is a kind of...):

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

Derivation:

recent (new)


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