anachronism
Meanings
Plural: anachronisms
Noun
- something located at a time when it could not have existed or occurred
- an artifact that belongs to another time
- a person who seems to be displaced in time; who belongs to another age
- A chronological mistake; the erroneous dating of an event, circumstance, or object.
- A person or thing which seems to belong to a different time or period of time.
- The aberrant projection of the present onto the past.
Origin / Etymology
From New Latin anachronismus, from Ancient Greek ἀναχρονισμός (anakhronismós), from ἀναχρονίζομαι (anakhronízomai, “referring to the wrong time”), from ἀνά (aná, “up against”) + χρονίζω (khronízō, “spending time”), from χρόνος (khrónos, “time”). Analyzable as ana- + chrono- + -ism.
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