antichronism

English

Etymology

From anti- +‎ chrono- +‎ -ism.

Noun

antichronism (countable and uncountable, plural antichronisms)

1. (archaic) Deviation from the true order of time; anachronism.
   • 1612, John Selden, notes upon Poly-Olbion 4[1]:

     […] many grosse absurdities in our Chronologies, which are by transcribing, interpolation, misprinting, and creeping in of antichronismes now and then strangely disordered.

Related terms

• antichronical

References

• “antichronism”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.