ANACHRONISM: Synonyms and Related Words. What is Another Word for ANACHRONISM?

Need another word that means the same as “anachronism”? Find 2 synonyms and 30 related words for “anachronism” in this overview.

The synonyms of “Anachronism” are: misdating, mistiming

Anachronism as a Noun

Definitions of "Anachronism" as a noun

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “anachronism” as a noun can have the following definitions:

• An artifact that belongs to another time.
• The action of attributing something to a period to which it does not belong.
• A person who seems to be displaced in time; who belongs to another age.
• Something located at a time when it could not have existed or occurred.
• A thing belonging or appropriate to a period other than that in which it exists, especially a thing that is conspicuously old-fashioned.

Synonyms of "Anachronism" as a noun (2 Words)

misdating	Something located at a time when it could not have existed or occurred.
mistiming	Something located at a time when it could not have existed or occurred.

Usage Examples of "Anachronism" as a noun

• It is anachronism to suppose that the official morality of the age was mere window dressing.
• The town is a throwback to medieval times, an anachronism that has survived the passing years.

Associations of "Anachronism" (30 Words)

ambivalence	The state of having mixed feelings or contradictory ideas about something or someone. The law s ambivalence about the importance of a victim s identity.
atavism	Recurrence of traits of an ancestor in a subsequent generation. The more civilized a society seems to be the more susceptible it is to its buried atavism.
back	Related to or located at the back. The team was five points back.
backslide	Relapse into bad ways or error. There are many things that can cause slimmers to backslide.
backward	In a manner or order or direction the reverse of normal. The child put her jersey on backward.
backwards	At or to or toward the back or rear. Count backwards from twenty to ten.
conflicting	In disagreement- John Morley. Conflicting opinions.
contradiction	A situation in which inconsistent elements are present. He spoke as if he thought his claims were immune to contradiction.
contradictory	A contradictory proposition. Perfect and imperfect are contradictory terms.
contrary	A contrary proposition. His mother had given him contrary messages.
converse	Of words so related that one reverses the relation denoted by the other. Parental and filial are converse terms.
degeneration	The state or process of being or becoming degenerate; decline or deterioration. Overgrazing has caused serious degeneration of grassland.
inconsistency	An inconsistent aspect or element. The inconsistency between his expressed attitudes and his actual behaviour.
inverse	Something inverted in sequence or character or effect. When the direct approach failed he tried the inverse.
opposing	(of two or more subjects) differing from or in conflict with each other. On the opposing page there were two addresses.
oxymoron	Conjoining contradictory terms (as in `deafening silence.
paradox	A statement that contradicts itself. The uncertainty principle leads to all sorts of paradoxes like the particles being in two places at once.
paradoxical	Seemingly absurd or self-contradictory. By glorifying the acts of violence they achieve the paradoxical effect of making them trivial.
regress	Calculate the coefficient or coefficients of regression of a variable against or on another variable. I regressed Sylvia to early childhood.
regression	An abnormal state in which development has stopped prematurely. The details recalled by Carol during the regression.
regressive	Adjusted so that the rate decreases as the amount of income increases. A regressive personality.
relapse	(of a sick or injured person) deteriorate after a period of improvement. He relapsed into silence.
retreat	Make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity. After the funeral he retreated to Scotland.
retrograde	Show retrograde motion. Retrograde arguments.
retrogression	Passing from a more complex to a simpler biological form. A retrogression to 19th century attitudes.
retrospect	Look back upon (a period of time, sequence of events); remember. In retrospect.
retrospective	Concerned with or related to the past. A Georgia O Keeffe retrospective.
reversal	A change from one state to the opposite state. The reversal of tidal currents.
reversion	A property to which someone has the right of reversion. He was given a promise of the reversion of Boraston s job.
throwback	Characteristic of an atavist. The eyes could be an ancestral throwback.