Anarchist vs Anachronism - What's the difference?
anarchist | anachronism |
One who believes in or advocates the absence of hierarchy and authority in most forms (compare anarchism), especially one who works toward the realization of such.
One who disregards laws and social norms as a form of rebellion against authority.
(By extension from previous sense ), one who promotes chaos and lawlessness; a nihilist.
One who resents outside control or influence on his or her life, in particular a government, and therefore desires the absence of political control.
A chronological mistake; the erroneous dating of an event, circumstance, or object.
A person or thing which seems to belong to a different time or period of time.
* 1956 , , The City and the Stars , page 32:
As nouns the difference between anarchist and anachronism
is that anarchist is anarchist (person) while anachronism is a chronological mistake; the erroneous dating of an event, circumstance, or object.anarchist
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(wikipedia anarchist)Noun
(en noun)Usage notes
* Self-identified anarchists in sense 1 may object to the use of this term in senses 2 and 3.Anagrams
* English words suffixed with -ist ----anachronism
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(wikipedia anachronism)Noun
(en noun)- His movements, his clothes, everything about him, seemed slightly out of place in this assembly. He spoiled the pattern; like Alvin, he was an anachronism .