Meaning of recentism | Babel Free

Definitions

A focus on recent events to the exclusion of history.

rare, uncountable

Examples

“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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