Sentence:  Han 's student days were at a time when Europe was in a <WSD>new</WSD> intellectual ferment following the revolutions in America and in France , Germany and Italy were rising from divisive nationalisms and a strong wave of intellectual awareness was sweeping the Continent . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  not of long duration; having just (or relatively recently) come into being or been made or acquired or discovered