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

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne