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A time immediately before the present
Answer for the clue "A time immediately before the present ", 7 letters:
recency
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Word definitions for recency in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Recency \Re"cen*cy\ (r[=e]"sen*s[y^]), 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.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a time immediately before the present [syn: recentness ] the property of having happened or appeared not long ago [syn: recentness ]
Usage examples of recency.
Court gala at all glittering, despite the recency of a coronation-other than Prince Miklos, quietly resplendent in his tawny eastern silks.
Both she and Joram had been too numb with grief to notice it at the time, or perhaps attributed it to the recency of death, but they had noticed it since.
Nothing in the great outer walls seemed to date from later than the Jurassic and Comanchian periods, nor was any piece of stone in the entire place of a greater recency than the Pliocene Age.
The factors that strengthen these tendencies or connections are the frequency, recency, primacy, and vividness of experience.
The factors of association are primacy, recency, frequency, intensity, and mental set or attitude.
After the list is finished, let each student try to find out what the determining factor was in each case, whether primacy, frequency, recency, vividness, or mental set.
And then she adverted, with a blush, to the extreme recency of this date.