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

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

They had, indeed, lived a long time ago, but this was no disadvantage: any one who reads Tatian's Oratio ad Graecos can see how antiquity, not recentness, was regarded as desirable.

From Landmarks in the History of Early Christianity by Lake, Kirsopp

I did not, till now, advert to the recentness of his appearance among us, and to the obscurity that hung over his origin and past life.

From Edgar Huntly or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker by Brown, Charles Brockden

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