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Recentness

Recentness \Re"cent*ness\, n. Quality or state of being recent.

Wiktionary
recentness

n. The characteristic of being recent.

WordNet
recentness
  1. n. a time immediately before the present [syn: recency]

  2. the property of having happened or appeared not long ago [syn: recency]

Usage examples of "recentness".

It must be noted that in view of the recentness of the event and certain accompanying circumstances, it was still being spoken of somewhat cautiously that evening, and not aloud.

The recentness of the infalls and the absence of weather erosion that so quickly tames features on the surface combined to produce an insane jumble of precariously balanced slabs and boulders, the crazy canting of which seemed to refute gravity and create a carnival fun house effect in which water appears to run up hill, and what looks level is dangerously slanted.