anachronism


Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
anachronism /əˈnakrəˌnɪz(ə)m/
noun
  • 1 a thing belonging or appropriate to a period other than that in which it exists.
  • 2 the attribution of something to a period to which it does not belong.
– derivatives
anachronic /ˌanəˈkrɒnɪk/ adjective,
anachronistic adjective,
anachronistically adverb.
– origin C17: from Gk anakhronismos, from ana- ‘backwards’ + khronos ‘time’.
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