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   anachronism

   /əˈnakrənɪz(ə)m/

   noun

   • 1. a thing belonging or appropriate to a period other than that in which it exists, especially a thing that is conspicuously old-fashioned: "the town is a throwback to medieval times, an anachronism that has survived the passing years"
   • ▪ the action of attributing something to a period to which it does not belong: "it is anachronism to suppose that the official morality of the age was mere window dressing"

   Word Origin mid 17th century: from Greek anakhronismos, from ana- ‘backwards’ + khronos ‘time’.

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