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  1. Is there a good synonym for "recency"? - English Language

    As far as recency is concerned, recentness appears to be the only synonym available. However, from what I understand from your question, temporal proximity is what fits your need best.

  2. What word refers to how recent something is?

    Jun 12, 2019 · Freshness can represent recency or relative newness. From Oxford Learner's Dictionary: [uncountable] the fact of being made or experienced recently Based on the …

  3. Single word(s) that describes all activity sorted by recency

    1 We are struggling to find the correct word (s) that describes a list of all messages in the system that are sorted by recency. Trending does not work because what we are displaying is not …

  4. Is there a word for the bias of not knowing what came before?

    May 14, 2021 · Recency illusion is a cognitive bias commonly reinforced by the Baader–Meinhof phenomenon, which occurs when one suddenly starts noticing something one's noticed for the …

  5. When do I use "I" and "I have"? [duplicate] - English Language

    May 9, 2018 · It is arguable that the experiential and resultative categories are broad enough to cover all non-continuative uses, but recency adds an important component to the account. For …

  6. Idiom "Catches Me Out" - English Language & Usage Stack …

    Jun 2, 2023 · The transitive multi word verb catch someone out has several different senses: catch someone out [show / discover wrongdoing] [Collins labels this sense 'mainly British'; M …

  7. etymology - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange

    Mar 4, 2019 · Linquists refer to the recency illusion where a usage is thought to be newer than it is; it is particularly common for usages that someone doesn't like.

  8. grammatical number - "neither is" vs. "neither are"? - English …

    I don’t have time at the moment, but if someone else is in the mood for some corpus or n -gram searching (or can find someone who’s already done the research), it would be very interesting …

  9. Difference between "under", "underneath", "below" and "beneath"

    Sep 7, 2018 · It leads me to the confusion, when it comes to contradicting between some prepositions. Today, I want to know the distinction between the two similar senses of these …

  10. phrase requests - A word for when you just learned a new word …

    This sounds like a combination of the "Recency Illusion" and the "Frequency Illusion" (terms coined by the linguist Arnold Zwicky). The Recency Illusion is how it seems like the word didn't …