anachronism

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
anachronism
    n 1: something located at a time when it could not have existed
         or occurred [syn: {anachronism}, {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
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Anachronism \An*ach"ro*nism\, n. [Gr. 'anachronismo`s, fr.
   'anachroni`zein to refer to a wrong time, to confound times;
   'ana` + chro`nos 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.
   [1913 Webster]
from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
20 Moby Thesaurus words for "anachronism":
      antedate, antedating, anticipation, defect, faux pas, flaw, gaffe,
      metachronism, misapplication, misdate, misdating, mistake,
      mistiming, parachronism, postdate, postdating, prochronism,
      prolepsis, slip, solecism
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