Home / Thesaurus / anachronism
Thesaurus: anachronism
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.
Related headwords
timedefinitionerrordefinitionbelongsdefinitionearlydefinitionESPdefinitioneventdefinitioneventsdefinitionfalsificationdefinitionmisplaceddefinitionmisplacingdefinitionorderdefinitionplaceddefinitionregarddefinitionrelationdefinitionagedefinitionartifactdefinitionchronologicaldefinitionchronologydefinitiondisplaceddefinitionexisteddefinitionlocateddefinitionoccurreddefinitionpersondefinitionseemsdefinitionsomethingdefinitionanacharisfamilyanachoretfamilyanachoreticalfamily
Definitions
- n. 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.
- n. something located at a time when it could not have existed or occurred
- n. an artifact that belongs to another time
- n. a person who seems to be displaced in time; who belongs to another age
- 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.
- A misplacing or error in the order of time; an error inchronology by which events are misplaced in regard to each other,esp. one by which an event is placed too early; falsification ofchronological relation.
- n:100 n. something located at a time when it could not have existed or occurred n. an artifact that belongs to another time n. a person who seems to be displaced in time; who belongs to another age