anachronism

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A chronological mistake; the erroneous dating of an event, circumstance, or object.

   “Indeed, that Hall of the Upper Temple is a sight not uninteresting, and with the exception of some trifling improvements and anachronisms which have been introduced into the practice there, a man may sit down and fancy that he joins in a meal of the seventeenth century.”

2. isim A person or thing which seems to belong to a different time or period of time.

   “You are too young—it is an anachronism for you to have such thoughts”

3. isim The aberrant projection of the present onto the past.