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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Anachronism \An*ach"ro*nism\, n. [Gr. ?, fr ? to refer to a wrong time, to confound times; ? + ? time: cf F. anachronisme.] 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: anachronism n 1: something located at a time when it could not have existed or occurred [syn: {mistiming}, {misdating}] 2: an artifact that belongs to another time 3: a person who seems to be displaced in time; who belongs to another age
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