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TAKE THE QUIZanachronism
noun
anach·ro·nism
ə-ˈna-krə-ˌni-zəm
1
: an error in chronology
especially
: a chronological misplacing of persons, events, objects, or customs in regard to each other
found several anachronisms in the movie
2
: a person or a thing that is chronologically out of place
especially
: one from a former age that is incongruous in the present
By the time I reached my teens, the housewife was an anachronism, replaced on television by the perky, glamorous, character of That Girl, Marlo Thomas, who kept her boyfriend at bay in the interest of pursuing her acting career. —
Joyce Maynard
3
: the state or condition of being chronologically out of place
anachronously
adverb
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