As far as recency is concerned, recentness appears to be the only synonym available. However, from what I understand from your question, temporal proximity is what fits your need best.

1 We are struggling to find the correct word (s) that describes a list of all messages in the system that are sorted by recency.

Jun 12, 2019 · Freshness can represent recency or relative newness. From Oxford Learner's Dictionary: [uncountable] the fact of being made or experienced recently Based on the …

The only Americanism I see in the sentences you cite is the use of just with the Past Simple. In British English, just is usually used with the Present Perfect tense, which is considered the …

Jul 23, 2019 · Data and news often described as being recent, and the word also fits nicely into that particular list because it starts with re-. Recent refers to something that happened not so …

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Jan 16, 2018 · In my communication in a translation community with one of the masters there, she used "recent future" instead of the known phrase, "near future". From Information Retrieval …

Dictionary definitions of all three are very similar, typically something like: a pithy observation which contains a general truth But the Wikipedia entries for each are quite different. Are these

Dec 23, 2017 · Is recency the only reason to use the “perfect of recent past”, or should we use it strictly when giving a new or “hot” information? What exactly makes us choose to use the …

I don’t have time at the moment, but if someone else is in the mood for some corpus or n -gram searching (or can find someone who’s already done the research), it would be very interesting …