
Is there a good synonym for "recency"?
As far as recency is concerned, recentness appears to be the only synonym available. However, from what I understand from your question, temporal proximity is what fits your need best.
What word refers to how recent something is?
Jun 12, 2019 · Freshness can represent recency or relative newness. From Oxford Learner's Dictionary: [uncountable] the fact of being made or experienced recently Based on the freshness of the tyre …
Single word(s) that describes all activity sorted by recency
1 We are struggling to find the correct word (s) that describes a list of all messages in the system that are sorted by recency. Trending does not work because what we are displaying is not what is …
Is there a better word than "just" for describing the recency of an event?
The only Americanism I see in the sentences you cite is the use of just with the Past Simple. In British English, just is usually used with the Present Perfect tense, which is considered the correct thing to …
meaning - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
Dictionary definitions of all three are very similar, typically something like: a pithy observation which contains a general truth But the Wikipedia entries for each are quite different. Are these
Is there a word for the bias of not knowing what came before?
May 14, 2021 · Recency illusion is a cognitive bias commonly reinforced by the Baader–Meinhof phenomenon, which occurs when one suddenly starts noticing something one's noticed for the first …
expressions - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
Jan 22, 2017 · It’s something of an inverse recency illusion. What happens to people who want to read yesterday’s newspaper? The existing English language didn't die when today’s kindergarteners were …
Which is correct, "neither is" or "neither are"?
I don’t have time at the moment, but if someone else is in the mood for some corpus or n -gram searching (or can find someone who’s already done the research), it would be very interesting to …
Usage of the word "itself" - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
Jan 18, 2011 · I would say "just yesterday" and "just this morning": these are not quite the same meaning, as they are emphasising how recent the time was, whereas I interpret the original remarks …
terminology - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
Jul 23, 2019 · Data and news often described as being recent, and the word also fits nicely into that particular list because it starts with re-. Recent refers to something that happened not so long ago, …