Usually means: Inconsistencies regarding time in narratives.
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  1. anachronisms: Merriam-Webster
  2. anachronisms: Collins English Dictionary
  3. anachronisms: Vocabulary.com
  4. Anachronisms, anachronisms: Wordnik
  5. anachronisms: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. anachronisms: Wiktionary
  7. anachronisms: Dictionary.com
  8. anachronisms: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Anachronisms: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Anachronisms: TheFreeDictionary.com

(Note: See anachronism as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (anachronism)

noun:  A chronological mistake; the erroneous dating of an event, circumstance, or object. [from 17th c.]
noun:  A person or thing which seems to belong to a different time or period of time. [from 19th c.]
noun:  The aberrant projection of the present onto the past.
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