recentism
nounEtymology From recent + -ism.
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Rare 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.1990, Sippanon Kētthat, Robert B. Textor, William Klausner, The Middle Path for the Future of Thailand, page 96:
- […]the tendency in the discipline of international relations to bolster endemic ethnocentrism with temporal short-sightedness – the flaws of parochialism and recentism[…]2007, Ken Booth, Theory of World Security, page 77:
1 more example
- 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[…]2008, Eamonn Fingleton, In the Jaws of the Dragon:
- Coordinate terms
- recency bias