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anachronistic

adj
/əˌnæk.ɹəˈnɪs.tɪk/

Etymology

From anachronism + -ic.

  1. derived from ἀναχρονισμός
  2. derived from anachronismus
  3. suffixed as anachronistic — “anachronism + ic”

Definitions

  1. Erroneous in date

    Erroneous in date; containing an anachronism; in a wrong time; not applicable to or not appropriate for the time.

    • If you know where to look in the movie, you can spot an anachronistic wrist watch on one of the Roman soldiers.
    • The impiety of the Ciceronian attitude was probably his major objection to the sect, yet the dialogue is mainly concerned with the more anachronistic and illogical aspects of attempting to write only as Cicero did.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at anachronistic. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at anachronistic. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

6 hops · closes at anachronistic

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA