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recentism

noun

Etymology

From recent + -ism.

  1. borrowed from recēns
  2. suffixed as recentism — “recent + ism”

Definitions

  1. A focus on recent events to the exclusion of history.

    • 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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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA