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Anachronistic vs. Steampunk — What's the Difference?

Anachronistic vs. Steampunk — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Anachronistic and Steampunk

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Anachronistic

The representation of someone as existing or something as happening in other than chronological, proper, or historical order.

Steampunk

Steampunk is a subgenre of science fiction that incorporates retrofuturistic technology and aesthetics inspired by 19th-century industrial steam-powered machinery. Steampunk works are often set in an alternative history of the Victorian era or the American "Wild West", where steam power remains in mainstream use, or in a fantasy world that similarly employs steam power.

Anachronistic

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.).

Steampunk

Science fiction set in an alternate version of the historic past, especially 19th-century England, and involving advanced technologies usually based on steam power.

Anachronistic

Erroneous in date; containing an anachronism; in a wrong time; not applicable to or not appropriate for the time.
If you know where to look in the movie, you can spot an anachronistic wrist watch on one of the Roman soldiers.
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Steampunk

An aesthetic style inspired by steampunk fiction.

Anachronistic

(of a person) Having opinions from the past; preferring things or values of the past; behind the times; overly conservative.

Steampunk

(uncountable) A subgenre of science fiction that depicts advanced technology combined with Victorian style and aesthetics, such as steam-powered machines and vehicles, visible gears and screws and people dressed in 19th-century attires. Category:en:Alternate history

Anachronistic

Erroneous in date; containing an anachronism.

Steampunk

(countable) A writer of steampunk fiction.

Anachronistic

Chronologically misplaced;
English public schools are anachronistic

Steampunk

A person cosplaying as a steampunk character.

Steampunk

(transitive) To depict in a steampunk manner.

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