| anachronism definitions |
| # | Definition | Sets |
| 1 | something out of place in time | 88 sets |
| 2 | something located at a time when it could not have existed or occurred | 72 sets |
| 3 | an error involving time in a story; something or someone misplaced in time; adj. anachronistic | 50 sets |
| 4 | something existing outside of its proper time | 40 sets |
| 5 | anything out of its proper historical time | 38 sets |
| 6 | something or someone out of place in terms of historical or chronological context | 33 sets |
| 7 | something out of place in time or history; an incongruity | 26 sets |
| 8 | something out of place or time | 19 sets |
| 9 | one that is chronologically out of place | 18 sets |
| 10 | n. anything occurring or existing out of its proper time. | 18 sets |
| 11 | something or someone misplaced in time | 17 sets |
| 12 | something not belonging to a certain time period | 14 sets |
| 13 | n. something not belonging to a certain time period | 14 sets |
| 14 | anything occurring or existing out of its proper time. | 13 sets |
| 15 | a chronological misplacing of events, objects, customs, or persons in regard to each other | 13 sets |
| 16 | something out of its proper time | 13 sets |
| 17 | anything occurring or existing out of its proper time | 13 sets |
| 18 | misplaced in time | 13 sets |
| 19 | out of place in time | 12 sets |
| 20 | something or someone existing outside of its proper time | 12 sets |
| 21 | something chronologically inappropriate | 12 sets |
| 22 | something out of its proper historical time; error of putting something in the wrong historical time | 11 sets |
| 23 | something or someone that is not in its correct historical or chronological time, esp. a thing or person that belongs to an earlier time | 11 sets |
| 24 | error in chronology or time order | 11 sets |
| 25 | something occuring in the wrong time | 11 sets |
| 26 | the misplacing of an object or event in a period to which it cannot possibly belong; anything out of its proper time frame | 11 sets |
| 27 | a person or thing, especially from the past, that is out of place in the present | 11 sets |
| 28 | anything that is out of place in time | 10 sets |
| 29 | something or someone that is not in its correct historical or chronological time | 9 sets |
| 30 | n. something existing outside of its proper time | 9 sets |
| 31 | chronological error | 9 sets |
| 32 | something misplaced in time | 9 sets |
| 33 | something out of place and time | 8 sets |
| 34 | an error in chronology | 8 sets |
| 35 | an error in the order of time | 7 sets |
| 36 | a person who seems to be displaced in time | 7 sets |
| 37 | "misplaced in time." an aspect of a story that doesn't belong in its supposed time setting. | 7 sets |
| 38 | something out of place in time or sequence | 7 sets |
| 39 | something out of place for its time | 7 sets |
| 40 | out of chronological order or place | 6 sets |