different between anachronism vs anatopism

English

Etymology

From New Latin anachronismus, from Ancient Greek ???????????? (anakhronismós), from ????????????? (anakhronízomai, “referring to the wrong time”), from ??? (aná, “up against”) + ??????? (khroníz?, “spending time”), from ?????? (khrónos, “time”). Analyzable as ana- +? chrono- +? -ism

Pronunciation

• (General American, Received Pronunciation) enPR: ?n?k?r?n?zm, ?n?k?r?n?z?m; IPA^(key): /??næ.k??.n?.z(?)m/

Noun

anachronism (countable and uncountable, plural anachronisms)

1. A chronological mistake; the erroneous dating of an event, circumstance, or object. [from 17th c.]
2. A person or thing which seems to belong to a different time or period of time. [from 19th c.]

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Further reading

• anachronism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

• James A. H. Murray [et al.], editors (1884–1928) , “Anachronism”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volume I (A–B), London: Clarendon Press, OCLC 15566697, page 300, column 2.

Anagrams

• Monarchians

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ??? (aná, “against”) and ????? (tópos, “place”); apparently by analogy with anachronism.

Noun

anatopism (plural anatopisms)

1. (rare) A thing that is out of its proper place; the geographic counterpart to anachronism.

   A war elephant described rampaging through Tenochtitlan in a novel about the Aztec Empire would be an anatopism.

   • 1836: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge, Esq., M. A., ed, The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge:

     […] and can find no associates in size at a less distance than two centuries; and in arranging which the puzzled librarian must commit an anachronism in order to avoid an anatopism.

   • 1912: Augustus Hopkins Strong, Miscellanies:

     There is no anachronism in putting them together; it is a sort of anatopism rather; the painter has placed within our view two scenes which no mortal eye could have witnessed at the same time.

   • 1921: John Anthony Scott, The Unity of Homer:

     It is a remarkable fact that, so far as I can judge, no case of local inconsistency, not a single anatopism, can be brought home to the Iliad.

   • 1995: Tony Killick, The Flexible Economy: Causes and Consequences of the Adaptability of National Economies:

     Much of the literature on the 'Japanese Miracle' (as well as on that vast anatopism, the transfer of Japanese recipes to Western countries) expatiates on […]

   • 2006: Lilie Chouliaraki, The Spectatorship of Suffering:

     […] the semiotic mechanism of reorganizing space in this manner as an anatopism. Anatopism renders places such as Bali equivalents of other places […]

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• Patmosian, potamians