About The Word Anachronism

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Anachronism

Anachronism Meaning & Definition
Anachronism Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Anachronism?

[n] an artifact that belongs to another time
[n] a person who seems to be displaced in time; who belongs to another age
[n] something located at a time when it could not have existed or occurred

Synonyms | Synonyms for Anachronism: misdating | mistiming

Related Terms | Find terms related to Anachronism: antedate | antedating | anticipation | defect | faux pas | flaw | gaffe | metachronism | misapplication | misdate | misdating | mistake | mistiming | parachronism | postdate | postdating | prochronism | prolepsis | slip | solecism

See Also | anomaly | artefact | artifact | timekeeping | unusual person

Anachronism In Webster's Dictionary

\An*ach"ro*nism\, n. [Gr. ?, fr. ? to refer to a wrong time, to confound times; ? + ? time: cf. F. anachronisme.] A misplacing or error in the order of time; an error in chronology by which events are misplaced in regard to each other, esp. one by which an event is placed too early; falsification of chronological relation.

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