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anachronism
[ uh-nak-ruh-niz-uhm ]
noun
- something or someone that is not in its correct historical or chronological time, especially a thing or person that belongs to an earlier time:
The sword is an anachronism in modern warfare.
- an error in chronology in which a person, object, event, etc., is assigned a date or period other than the correct one:
To assign Michelangelo to the 14th century is an anachronism.
anachronism
/ əˈnækrəˌnɪzəm /
noun
- the representation of an event, person, or thing in a historical context in which it could not have occurred or existed
- a person or thing that belongs or seems to belong to another time
she regards the Church as an anachronism
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Derived Forms
- aˌnachroˈnistic, adjective
- aˌnachroˈnistically, adverb
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Other Words From
- an·a·chron·i·cal·ly [an-, uh, -, kron, -ik-lee], adverb
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Word History and Origins
Origin of anachronism1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of anachronism1
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Example Sentences
The “reenactment” of the battle, an even more recent anachronism, dates back only to 1977.
These days, says another former top studio executive, puts are an anachronism.
With these appears, by a poetic anachronism, Dietrich of Berne.
By the time of the Reform Bill, a sinecure had become an anachronism.
Yet there are "many traces of apparent anachronism," of divergence from the more antique picture of life.
It was to him more of an anachronism than any manifestation he had yet encountered, even at the Fort, that stronghold of the past.
But what is an anachronism of this kind compared to that which involves the principal character in one continued topsy-turveydom?
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