- the fact of being recent, of having occurred a relatively short time ago; closeness of a past event to a later past time or to the present:The general nervousness during that period was mostly due to the recency of the great stock market crash.
- the fact of being more recent than something else and therefore more salient or memorable (often used attributively):The data might be showing recency effects—that is, choices presented later were more likely to be selected by participants.
