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

How often had he faced a widowed mother and her daughter, in mourning so deep as to suggest the recentness of their loss.

From Cobwebs and Cables by Stretton, Hesba

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

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