recentism

English

Etymology

recent +‎ -ism

Noun

recentism (uncountable)

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

   Hyponym: recency bias

   • 1990, Sippanon Kētthat, Robert B. Textor, William Klausner, The Middle Path for the Future of Thailand, page 96:

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

   • 2007, Ken Booth, Theory of World Security, page 77:

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

   • 2008, Eamonn Fingleton, In the Jaws of the Dragon:

     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 […]

Coordinate terms

• recency bias

Anagrams

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