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a·nach·ro·nism
 (  -n  k  r -n  z  m)
KEY
NOUN:
- The representation of someone as existing or something as happening in other than chronological, proper, or historical order.
- 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.).
ETYMOLOGY:
French anachronisme, from New Latin anachronismus, from Late Greek anakhronismos, from anakhronizesthai, to be an anachronism : Greek ana-, ana- + Greek khronizein, to take time (from khronos, time)
OTHER FORMS:
a·nachro·nistic
or
a·nachro·nous
(-n s)
KEY
(Adjective),
a·nachro·nisti·cal·ly
or
a·nachro·nous·ly
(Adverb)
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