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"Anachronism" Definition

noun

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.).
The representation of someone as existing or something as happening in other than chronological, proper, or historical order.
An error in chronology.
A misplacing of persons, events, objects, or customs in regard to each other.
A person or a thing that is chronologically out of place.

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