Recentism

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A focus on recent events to the exclusion of history. rare, uncountable

    "I grant that I might here be suffering from "recentism" — that is, attributing too-great significance to very recent events."

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"I grant that I might here be suffering from "recentism" — that is, attributing too-great significance to very recent events."

Etymology

From recent + -ism.

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