About The Word Anachronism
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Anachronism
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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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