antichronological
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From anti- + chronological.
Adjective
[edit]antichronological (not comparable)
- In reversed chronological order; working backwards through time.
- 1998, Nicholas Rescher, Communicative Pragmatism and Other Philosophical Essays on Language:
- In theory, there could be two ways of working a coherent, connected, systematic account of a person — the chronological, which proceeds backward (so to speak) from the beginning to the end and the antichronological, which proceeds from the end to the beginning.