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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 present
2. the property of having happened or appeared not long ago
Familiarity information: RECENTNESS used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
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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