neoteric

I just noticed that the edit distance between this word and neotenic is absurdly small.

"Of recent origin, modern".

"It was an update. The guards listened in shock.
Apparently there were troubling new developments which could not be shared on-air, but the camerlengo had decided to break tradition and enter conclave to address the cardinals. Never before in history had this been done. Then again, Chartrand realized, never before in history had the Vatican been sitting on what amounted to some sort of neoteric nuclear warhead."
- 'Angels and Demons', Dan Brown.