Meanings
nounrecency bias (usually uncountable, plural recency biases)
plural recency biases
- uncountableusuallyA cognitive bias that favors recent events over historic ones.
Recency bias once saw Robbie Williams come sixth in a poll of 600,000 to decide the most influential musicians of the last millennium – one place above Mozart – so we should be wary of getting carried away in the moment.
2019 August 26, Ali Martin, “The big question: was Stokes’s hundred the greatest Test innings you’ve seen?”, in The GuardianSynonyms: recency effect
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA cognitive bias that favors recent events over historic ones.
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Finnish viimeaikaisuusharha
- viimeaikaisuusharhacognitive bias that favors recent events over historic ones
German Rezenzverzerrung, Neuheitsverzerrung
- Rezenzverzerrungcognitive bias that favors recent events over historic ones
- Neuheitsverzerrungcognitive bias that favors recent events over historic ones
- Neuigkeitseffektcognitive bias that favors recent events over historic ones
Spanish sesgo de reciencia
- sesgo de recienciacognitive bias that favors recent events over historic ones
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recency bias. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/recency%20bias
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“recency bias.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/recency%20bias. Accessed November 4, 2026.
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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “recency bias,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/recency%20bias.
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