RECENTNESS Synonyms: 23 Similar and Opposite Words

recentness

noun

as in currentness

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Noun

Unlike Chakrabarti, Wiener has also been a part of San Francisco’s insular community for decades, and has his own base of support — though he is considered a moderate to Chakrabarti’s progressiveness.

— Anita Chabria, Mercury News, 22 Oct. 2025
Its reputation is one of progressiveness and social awareness.

— Christian Orozco, NBC news, 12 Sep. 2025

Definition of progressiveness

Noun

The American supermarket, with its endless array of products and innovations like the shopping cart and barcodes, has achieved an almost mythical status around the world.

— Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Money, 15 Aug. 2026
Players ruthlessly compete for victory points derived from controlling systems, building specific structures, discovering artifacts, and researching scientific innovations.

— Alan Bradley, Space.com, 14 Aug. 2026

Definition of innovation

Noun

The 21-year-old midfielder has loan interest from EFL clubs, but his departure is contingent on potential incomings.

— Roshane Thomas, New York Times, 15 Aug. 2026
The luxury pods — complete with lie-flat beds and sliding privacy doors — could be entirely off-limits when departure day rolls around, sitting completely empty at 35,000 feet.

— Edward Russell, CNN Money, 15 Aug. 2026

Definition of departure

Noun

More capacity in a misaligned organization accelerates divergence, and aligned sponsors watching an overloaded team still get a stall.

— Leslie Ellis, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026
Both the moving average convergence divergence and relative strength index, known respectively as MACD and RSI, continue to trend higher.

— Jay Woods, CNBC, 6 Aug. 2026

Definition of divergence

Noun

Every last member of the Chiefs’ offensive line is familiar with Benson’s, well, unfamiliarity with a starting job in their first NFL training camp.

— Sam McDowell August 6, Kansas City Star, 6 Aug. 2026
The reasons are many, ranging from the slow adoption of new medical technologies, to many urologists’ unfamiliarity with interpreting MRI scans, to the loss of income from doing fewer biopsies.

— Annalisa Merelli, STAT, 5 Aug. 2026

Definition of unfamiliarity

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