Meaning of ANACHRONISM
| Pronunciation: | | u'nakru`nizum
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- [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
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| | Synonyms: | | misdating, mistiming |
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| | See Also: | | anomaly, artefact, artifact, timekeeping, unusual person | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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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| | Related Terms: | | antedate, antedating, anticipation, defect, faux pas, flaw, gaffe, metachronism, misapplication, misdate, misdating, mistake, mistiming, parachronism, postdate, postdating, prochronism, prolepsis, slip, solecism |
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