Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

recentism

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: re-cen-tism
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A focus on recent events to the exclusion of history.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"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[…]"

Etymology

From recent + -ism.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: recent

Usage

Uncountable

Frequently Paired Words

recency bias

Questions

What does recentism mean?: A focus on recent events to the exclusion of history.
Where does recentism come from?: From recent + -ism.

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