recentness

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His expertise is measured instead by the number and recentness of trips he has taken to the country.

From Newsweek • Apr. 15, 2013

It is sufficient to have related events which the recentness of your intercourse with her hindered you from knowing but by means of some formal narrative like the present.

From Ormond, Volume III (of 3) or, The Secret Witness by Brown, Charles Brockden

The extreme recentness of his inspiration is as enviable as the tale is startling that his productions tell of his being at home, domesticated and initiated, in this wicked and weary world.

From Views and Reviews by James, Henry

The huddling together of our American cities is due to the recentness of the time when space was our greatest enemy and sparseness our chief discouragement.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 42, April, 1861 by Various

There are meander designs, lightning, and drawings of cows and horses; but the latter were doubtless put on after the walls were demolished, and their general appearance denotes recentness.

From Unknown Mexico, Volume 1 (of 2) A Record of Five Years' Exploration Among the Tribes of the Western Sierra Madre; In the Tierra Caliente of Tepic and Jalisco; and Among the Tarascos of Michoacan by Lumholtz, Carl