Associations to the word «Anachronism»

Wiktionary

ANACHRONISM, noun. A chronological mistake; the erroneous dating of an event, circumstance, or object.
ANACHRONISM, noun. A person or thing which seems to belong to a different time or period of time.

Dictionary definition

ANACHRONISM, noun. Something located at a time when it could not have existed or occurred.
ANACHRONISM, noun. An artifact that belongs to another time.
ANACHRONISM, noun. A person who seems to be displaced in time; who belongs to another age.

Wise words

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky