Anachronism Synonyms

ə-năkrə-nĭzəm
Something located at a time when it could not have existed or occurred
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. misdating
  2. misdate
  3. antedate
  4. postdate
  5. prochronism
  6. chronological error
  7. mistiming
  8. misplacement in time
  9. prolepsis
  10. metachronism
  11. parachronism

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Anachronism Sentence Examples

  • The Lodge remained an anachronism, and was allowed to decline.

  • In many ways the Order had become an anachronism.

  • The story which tells how the two went out one morning to dance round a tree of liberty in a meadow is an anachronism, though in keeping with their opinions.

  • Abimelech is called "king of the Philistines," but the title is clearly an anachronism.

  • Peter Watkins uses TV broadcasting, a deliberate anachronism, to stage his tale of the Paris Commune.

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