English Language & Usage Asked by Rocksalt on April 12, 2021
I’m looking for a term to describe a state. Ordinarily I would use the word “Currency” to describe the state of “Current”, “Future”, “Previous”, however in the context, this would be too easily confused with a monetary currency.
What would be another good word to use to describe a “currency” state?
“The currency of the address” sounds and reads horribly, and certainly “tense” in this context doesn’t work.
Possibly recency or recentness
[the quality of] having appeared, happened, or been made not long ago; modern, fresh, or new
While the terms suggest close to the present, they might provide a reference point as in
What is the recency of that event?
Answered by bib on April 12, 2021
Some of the IT folk down here in Jamaica seek data fields or data elements which are TEMPORAL in nature, adding context of time, e.g., insert_datetime, update_datetime. So that is another adjective which MAY fit......
Answered by user414762 on April 12, 2021
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