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The synonyms of “Anachronism” are: misdating, mistiming
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “anachronism” as a noun can have the following definitions:
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. |
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. |
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