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Nowdays vs Recently - What's the difference?

nowdays | recently |

As adverbs the difference between nowdays and recently

is that nowdays is while recently is in the recent past; newly; lately; freshly; not long since.

nowdays

English

Adverb

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  • * {{quote-book, year=1913, author=Agnes C. Laut, title=The Freebooters of the Wilderness, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=Oh, A know vera well, we've no time for an old or a new dispensation nowdays . }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1899, author=Edward Noyes Westcott, title=David Harum, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=I s'pose if the gen'ral run of trotters never got better 'n three 'n a half that a hoss that c'd do it in three 'd be fast, but we don't call 'em so nowdays . }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1876, author=Pansy, title=Four Girls at Chautauqua, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=He didn't know any more than little mites of Sunday-school children do nowdays . }}

    recently

    English

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • In the recent past; newly; lately; freshly; not long since.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
  • , title=(The China Governess) , chapter=1 citation , passage=The half-dozen pieces […] were painted white and carved with festoons of flowers, birds and cupids. To display them the walls had been tinted a vivid blue which had now faded, but the carpet, which had evidently been stored and recently relaid, retained its original turquoise.}}
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-21, author= Chico Harlan
  • , volume=189, issue=2, page=30, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Japan pockets the subsidy … , passage=Across Japan, technology companies and private investors are racing to install devices that until recently they had little interest in: solar panels. Massive solar parks are popping up as part of a rapid build-up that one developer likened to an "explosion."}}

    Antonyms

    * long ago * long since