As nouns the difference between anatomism and anatopism
is that anatomism is the application of the principles of anatomy, as in art while anatopism is (rare) a thing that is out of its proper place; the geographic counterpart to anachronism.
anatomism
English
Noun
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The application of the principles of anatomy, as in art.
- The stretched and vivid anatomism of their great figure painters.'' — ''The London Spectator .
The doctrine that the anatomical structure explains all the phenomena of the organism or of animal life.
(
Webster 1913)
anatopism
English
Noun
(
en noun)
(rare) A thing that is out of its proper place; the geographic counterpart to anachronism.
- A described rampaging through Tenochtitlan in a novel about the Aztec Empire would be an anatopism.
Quotations
* 1836 : Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge, Esq., M. A., ed, The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
*: ... and can find no associates in size at a less distance than two centuries; and in arranging which the puzzled librarian must commit an anachronism in order to avoid an anatopism .
* 1912 : Augustus Hopkins Strong, Miscellanies
*: There is no anachronism in putting them together; it is a sort of anatopism rather; the painter has placed within our view two scenes which no mortal eye could have witnessed at the same time.
* 1921 : John Anthony Scott, The Unity of Homer
*: "It is a remarkable fact that, so far as I can judge, no case of local inconsistency, not a single anatopism , can be brought home to the Iliad.
* 1995 : Tony Killick, The Flexible Economy: Causes and Consequences of the Adaptability of National Economies
*: Much of the literature on the 'Japanese Miracle' (as well as on that vast anatopism , the transfer of Japanese recipes to Western countries) expatiates on ...
* 2006 : Lilie Chouliaraki, The Spectatorship of Suffering
*: ... the semiotic mechanism of reorganizing space in this manner as an anatopism'''. '''Anatopism renders places such as Bali equivalents of other places, such ... 