Recency

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Recency \Re"cen*cy\ (r[=e]"sen*s[y^]), n. [LL. recentia, fr. L.
     recens. See {Recent}.]
     The state or quality of being recent; newness; new state;
     late origin; lateness in time; freshness; as, the recency of
     a transaction, of a wound, etc.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  recency
       n 1: a time immediately before the present [syn: {recentness}]
       2: the property of having happened or appeared not long ago
          [syn: {recentness}]