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anachronism
noun
(a-nach-ro-nism)
something located at a time when it could not have existed or occurred
Synonyms:
misdating
,
mistiming
,
anachronism
noun
(a-nach-ro-nism)
an artifact that belongs to another time
anachronism
noun
(a-nach-ro-nism)
a person who seems to be displaced in time; who belongs to another age
Words Related to
anachronism
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mistiming
,
misdating
,
irrelevance
,
archaic
,
relic
,
oxymoron
,
archaism
,
vestige
,
oddity
,
throwback
,
misnomer
,
fustiness
,
cliche
,
afterthought
,
absurdity
,
exaggeration
,
irrelevancy
,
parachronism
,
prochronism
,
metachronism
,
passe
,
parachronistic
,
unhip
,
royalism
,
old fogy
,
gerontocracy
,
old fashioned
,
buggy whip
,
anathema
,
affront
,
de rigueur
,
infra dig
,
excrescence
,
codger
,
abomination
,
luddite
,
remnant
,
neologism
,
stodginess
,
metonym
,
brutalism
,
nostalgists
,
fogies
,
sovietism
,
affectation
,
atavism
,
auteurism
,
ethnocracy
,
overkill
,
foppery
,
forbearer
,
folly
,
impertinence
,
desuetude
,
purism
,
solipsist
,
exemplar
,
sentimentalists
,
simulacrum
,
attitudinizing
,
era
,
olde worlde
,
gauche
,
frippery
,
nonperson
,
pipedream
,
nostalgist
,
prole
,
tautology
,
nabob
,
bastardised
,
unreformed
,
antonym
,
sacred cow
,
bohemianism
,
egalitarianism
,
potemkin village
,
oversimplification
,
allusion
,
fad
,
eyesore
,
musty
,
kitsch
,
doddery
,
aberration
,
nonentity
,
genuflection
,
bismarckian
,
abstract noun
,
quiddity
,
appendage
,
ancien regime
,
ersatz
,
frivolousness
,
ghastliness
,
old codger
,
booboisie
,
monarchism
,
anglophobia
,
utopian socialism
,
anachronism
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