Search Result for "anachronism":
Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (3)

1. something located at a time when it could not have existed or occurred;
[syn: anachronism, mistiming, misdating]

2. an artifact that belongs to another time;

3. a person who seems to be displaced in time; who belongs to another age; 



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Anachronism \An*ach"ro*nism\, n. [Gr. 'anachronismo`s, fr.
   'anachroni`zein to refer to a wrong time, to confound times;
   'ana` + chro`nos time: cf. F. anachronisme.]
   A misplacing or error in the order of time; an error in
   chronology by which events are misplaced in regard to each
   other, esp. one by which an event is placed too early;
   falsification of chronological relation.
   [1913 Webster]


Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

20 Moby Thesaurus words for "anachronism":
   antedate, antedating, anticipation, defect, faux pas, flaw, gaffe,
   metachronism, misapplication, misdate, misdating, mistake,
   mistiming, parachronism, postdate, postdating, prochronism,
   prolepsis, slip, solecism