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Anatopism vs Anatocism - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between anatopism and anatocism

is that anatopism is (rare) a thing that is out of its proper place; the geographic counterpart to anachronism while anatocism is (legal) compound interest.

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 ...

    anatocism

    English

    Noun

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  • (legal) compound interest
  • (Bouvier)
    (Webster 1913)