recency Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a time immediately before the present
    recentness.
  2. noun the property of having happened or appeared not long ago
    recentness.

WordNet

Re"cen*cy noun
Etymology
LL. recentia, fr. L. recens. See Recent.
Definitions
  1. 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.

Webster 1913