Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or quality of being recent; recentness; newness; lateness; freshness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state or quality of being recent; newness; new state; late origin; lateness in time; freshness
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The property of being
recent ,newness
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a time immediately before the present
- noun the property of having happened or appeared not long ago
Etymologies
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Examples
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First, psychologists have documented a phenomenon they call the recency effect.
Managing Strategic Relationships Leonard Greenhalgh 2001
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First, psychologists have documented a phenomenon they call the recency effect.
Managing Strategic Relationships Leonard Greenhalgh 2001
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First, psychologists have documented a phenomenon they call the recency effect.
Managing Strategic Relationships Leonard Greenhalgh 2001
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Many of today's gold lovers are inflicted with what psychologists call the "recency" effect – the tendency of human beings to give most importance to what has happened in the recent past.
Is that Gold's Glitter or Your Brain's Tricks? Shefali Anand 2011
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This is a cognitive bias known as the recency effect.
NYT > Home Page By BRIAN BURKE 2011
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This is a cognitive bias known as the recency effect.
NYT > Home Page By BRIAN BURKE 2011
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But be careful about succumbing to what psychologists call recency bias - the tendency to form beliefs based largely on the most recent observations in a long series of data.
doggdot.us 2009
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In addition to the various data points used, campaigns based on custom audiences can be refined using factors such as recency and frequency of a given behavior.
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It's called "recency" and it's the way people extrapolate past events (or returns) into the future, even as those past returns become less likely to repeat.
James Berman: Reports of the Death of Equities: Greatly Exaggerated 2009
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Maybe they were scared by Yahoo MyWeb 2.0, or just the sheer scope of what technorati, feedster and increasingly del. icio.us have to face everyday when it comes to spam, indexing, relevancy and the latest buzzword in search "recency".
Web 2.0 + Search ain't easy Kids Ben Barren 2005
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