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

The recentness of the death of Rodney's mother gave an adequate excuse for such an arrangement, but the comparative narrowness of the Stantons' domestic resources enforced it.

From The Real Adventure by Crosby, Raymond Moreau

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

In the list of names upon the outer doors of the firm's vast labyrinthine suite, on the seventeenth floor of the Syndicate Building, his name came last—and, in the newest lettering, suggesting recentness of partnership.

From The Grain of Dust by Phillips, David Graham