recentism

recentism

English

Etymology

recent +‎ -ism

Noun

recentism (uncountable)

1. (rare) A focus on recent events to the exclusion of history.
   • 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 […]