recentness

Quality of newness

Recentness is the quality of having occurred or appeared not long ago.

The word is serviceable but rarely chosen over *recency*, which dominates in both casual and technical contexts: the recency of the data, recency bias.

Recentness appears occasionally when recency feels too clinical: the recentness of their breakup made dinner awkward.

temporal

lately

In recent times

current · present · immediate · today · now · up-to-date · latest · contemporaneous · real-time · timely

novelty

debut

First public appearance

breakthrough · unprecedented · pioneering · groundbreaking · emergence · introduction · first · initial · premiere · launch

freshness

crisp

Firm and breakable

clean · pure · newborn · dewy · sparkling · unblemished · spotless · immaculate · mint · unworn

Opposites
temporal proximity

recentnessantiquity

Great age, ancient era

ancientness · oldness · age · remoteness · pastness

novelty/familiarity

recentnesshabit

Settled regular tendency

traditionality · customariness · entrenchment · permanence

Family

recent, recently, recency

Familiarity
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Used worldwide · Timeless · Abstract · Everyday, not technical · Rated G