ANACHRONISM Synonyms
There are 9 hypernyms of the word anachronism. (close relations)
anachronous
Best Alternatives
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| absurdity | nounn | |||||
noun • a message whose content is at variance with reason • a ludicrous folly | ||||||
| archaism | nounn | |||||
noun • the use of an archaic expression | ||||||
| discrepancy | nounn | |||||
noun • a difference between conflicting facts or claims or opinions • an event that departs from expectations | ||||||
| error | noun, adjectiven, adj | |||||
noun • a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention • inadvertent incorrectness • a misconception resulting from incorrect information • (baseball) a failure of a defensive player to make an out when normal play would have sufficed • departure from what is ethically acceptable • (computer science) the occurrence of an incorrect result produced by a computer • part of a statement that is not correct | ||||||
| incongruity | nounn | |||||
noun • the quality of disagreeing; being unsuitable and inappropriate | ||||||
| incongruousness | nounn | |||||
noun • the quality of disagreeing; being unsuitable and inappropriate | ||||||
| inconsistency | nounn | |||||
noun • the relation between propositions that cannot both be true at the same time • the quality of being inconsistent and lacking a harmonious uniformity among things or parts | ||||||
| mistake | nounn | |||||
noun • a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention • an understanding of something that is not correct • part of a statement that is not correct verb • identify incorrectly • to make a mistake or be incorrect | ||||||
| old-fashionedness | nounn | |||||
noun • the property of being no longer fashionable | ||||||
| relic | nounn | |||||
noun • an antiquity that has survived from the distant past • something of sentimental value | ||||||
| throwback | nounn | |||||
noun • an organism that has the characteristics of a more primitive type of that organism • a reappearance of an earlier characteristic adjective satellite • characteristic of an atavist | ||||||
| misdating | verbv | |||||
noun • something located at a time when it could not have existed or occurred | ||||||
| mistiming | nounn | |||||
noun • something located at a time when it could not have existed or occurred | ||||||
