Anachronism vs. Parachronism — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Anachronism and Parachronism
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Anachronism
An anachronism (from the Greek ἀνά ana, 'against' and χρόνος khronos, 'time') is a chronological inconsistency in some arrangement, especially a juxtaposition of persons, events, objects, language terms and customs from different time periods. The most common type of anachronism is an object misplaced in time, but it may be a verbal expression, a technology, a philosophical idea, a musical style, a material, a plant or animal, a custom, or anything else associated with a particular period that is placed outside its proper temporal domain.
Parachronism
An error in chronological order in which something is ascribed a later time than the actual one; metachronism.
Anachronism
The representation of someone as existing or something as happening in other than chronological, proper, or historical order.
Parachronism
An error in chronology, by which the date of an event is set later than the time of its occurrence.
Anachronism
One that is out of its proper or chronological order, especially a person or practice that belongs to an earlier time
"A new age had plainly dawned, an age that made the institution of a segregated picnic seem an anachronism" (Henry Louis Gates, Jr.).
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Anachronism
A chronological mistake; the erroneous dating of an event, circumstance, or object. 17
Anachronism
A person or thing which seems to belong to a different time or period of time. 19
Anachronism
The aberrant projection of the present onto the past.
Anachronism
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.
Anachronism
Something located at a time when it could not have existed or occurred
Anachronism
An artifact that belongs to another time
Anachronism
A person who seems to be displaced in time; who belongs to another age
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