Concept cluster: Positive qualities > Anachronistic
adj
Timeless.
adj
(chiefly literature, film) Not chronological; proceeding through time in a nonlinear fashion
adj
Synonym of ahistorical
adj
Not in the proper or natural place; foreign.
adj
Not in the correct date order. Chronologically incorrect.
adj
(archaic) anachronistic
adj
(archaic) anachronistic
n
A person who has anachronistic views or habits
adj
(of a person) Having opinions from the past; preferring things or values of the past; behind the times; overly conservative.
adj
anachronistic
v
To refer to, or put into, a wrong time.
n
Synonym of anachronism
n
A term which is used in an anachronous way, by referring to something in a way that is appropriate only for a former or later time. A type of misnomer. Misnomers are not necessarily incorrect; for example, chalk for a chalkboard is normatively called chalk despite it not being made of chalk.
n
(rare) A thing that is out of its proper place; the geographic counterpart to anachronism.
adj
Deviating from the proper order of time.
n
Deviation from the true order of time; anachronism.
adv
In an anticlimactic manner.
adv
(law) In an anticonstitutional manner.
adj
antipathic
adv
In an antiscriptural manner.
adv
(semantics) In an antonymous way.
adj
(Celtic linguistics, of a verb form) Used with no subject, indicating an unknown or unspecified agent; used in similar situations as the passive in English (the difference being that the theme in the English passive construction is the subject, while in the Celtic autonomous construction the theme is the object and there is no subject).
n
Inverse or antonym of anachronism.
n
(politics) The desire to crush the prevailing sense of time, due to a conflict regarding the fixation of linear time in a community
adv
In a congenital manner; from birth.
adv
In a countercultural manner.
adv
In, or in terms of, counterhistory.
adv
In a counternormative manner.
adj
Anachronistic; being obviously inappropriate for its present context.
adj
(linguistics, philosophy) Taking the utterance in consideration, without having a particular referent in mind.
n
diachrony
adv
In an endonormative way.
n
Alternative form of extratemporality. [The state or characteristic of being extratemporal.]
adv
Outside of speech; by other means than speaking.
adv
In a heteronormative manner or context.
n
(countable, physics) A case in which the uncertainty principle applies; a case in which certain pairs of physical properties such as the position and momentum of a particle cannot be known simultaneously.
n
An error in chronological ordering in which a character or an event is placed at too late a time.
adj
(informal) hopelessly outdated
n
An error in chronological order in which something is ascribed a later time than the actual one; metachronism.
n
The condition of being paradigmatic
adj
illogical
n
An error in chronological order in which something is ascribed an earlier time than the actual one.
n
Personification of an abstraction.
n
(sciences) A form of trial in which a randomized control is not possible or would be unethical, the same participants being repeatedly observed
adj
Apparently or supposedly medical
adv
In terms of refutation
adj
Not anachronistic.

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