Anachronism
WordNet
noun
(1) An artifact that belongs to another time
(2) A person who seems to be displaced in time; who belongs to another age
(3) Something located at a time when it could not have existed or occurred
WiktionaryText
Etymology
From , from , from , from + , which from .
Noun
- 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.
- 1956, Arthur C. Clarke, The City and the Stars, page 32:
- His movements, his clothes, everything about him, seemed slightly out of place in this assembly. He spoiled the pattern; like Alvin, he was an anachronism.
- 1956, Arthur C. Clarke, The City and the Stars, page 32:
Related terms
- anachronistic
- anachronistically
- anachronous
- anachronously
- parachronistic
- prochronistic