recency

[ ree-suhn-see ]

noun

1. 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.

2. 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.

Word History and Origins

Origin of recency¹

recen(t) ( def ) + -cy ( def )

Example Sentences

“Walker certainly has the pedigree,” Roberts said, “but as far as recency, we haven’t seen it.”

From Los Angeles Times

Trump’s team messed up the key element of “primacy and recency,” Rossi explained.

From Salon

Maybe we are a little guilty of succumbing to recency bias, or maybe Usyk really is the greatest fighter of his generation.

From BBC

“The severity, recency, and location of the incidents was also a key factor in identifying the sites requiring targeted support.”

From Los Angeles Times

The study, published in eLife, describes how the model shows neural circuits can give rise to both recency and central tendency biases at the same time through a single mechanism.

From Science Daily