recency

[ ree-suhn-see ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

the fact of being recent, of having occurred a relatively short time ago; closeness of a past event to a later past time or to the present:
The general nervousness during that period was mostly due to the recency of the great stock market crash.
the fact of being more recent than something else and therefore more salient or memorable (often used attributively):
The data might be showing recency effects—that is, choices presented later were more likely to be selected by participants.

Origin of recency¹

The factors that strengthen these tendencies or connections are the frequency, recency, primacy, and vividness of experience.

That Mount Rainier should still retain so much of its internal heat is not surprising in view of the recency of its eruptions.

Once more, then, we find in our results no correspondence between recency of defect and quick mental recovery.

What particular word shall be recalled depends on the frequency, recency and intensity of past linkage.

We must add to this the comparative recency of geological study in this rich field.

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