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Anachronism vs Antichronism - What's the difference?

anachronism | antichronism |

As nouns the difference between anachronism and antichronism

is that anachronism is a chronological mistake; the erroneous dating of an event, circumstance, or object while antichronism is deviation from the true order of time; anachronism.

anachronism

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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:
  • 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 .

    Synonyms

    * throwback

    antichronism

    English

    Noun

  • Deviation from the true order of time; anachronism.
  • (Selden)
    (Webster 1913)