What is the difference between historical and recent?
historical | recent |
A historical romance.
* 1999 , Anne K. Kaler, Rosemary E. Johnson-Kurek, Romantic Conventions , page 63:
Having happened a short while ago.
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Having done something a short while ago that distinguishes them as what they are called.
As adjectives the difference between historical and recent
is that historical is pertaining to the history, to what happened in the past while recent is having happened a short while ago.As a noun historical
is a historical romance.historical
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Usage notes
* * See the usage notes about (m) for more.Synonyms
* historicDerived terms
* ahistorical * art-historicalNoun
(en noun)- However, as regular romance readers know, the romance novels that appear on the best-seller lists are not Harlequins at all, but rather historicals and contemporaries, which vary widely from the Harlequin pattern in style, plot, and character.
recent
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Adjective
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- The cause has several hundred recent donors.
- I met three recent graduates at the conference.
