recency

Variant of recent

adjective

  1. done, made, etc. just before the present time; modern; new
  2. of a time just before the present
  3. designating or of the Holocene Epoch of geologic time

Origin: MFr < L recens < re-, again + IE base *ken-, emerge freshly, new > Gr kainos, new

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