Recentism

"Recentism" in a Sentence (3 examples)

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

[…]the tendency in the discipline of international relations to bolster endemic ethnocentrism with temporal short-sightedness – the flaws of parochialism and recentism[…]

Those who are persuaded by the breakup argument are victims of “recentism” — they are unduly influenced by the recent past and not sufficiently cognizant of previous history[…]

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