anachronism has definitions from the field of sociology
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[ noun ] an artifact that belongs to another time

Used in print

(Booton Herndon, "From Custer to Korea, The 7th Cavalry"...)

Today a battle_cry may seem an anachronism , for in the modern Army , esprit_de_corps has been sacrificed to organizational charts and tables .

Related terms

artifact

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[ noun ] something located at a time when it could not have existed or occurred

Synonyms

misdating mistiming

Used in print

(Edward P. Lawton, "Northern Liberals and Southern...)

As for states ' rights , they have never counted in the thinking of my liberal friends except as irritations of a minor and immoral nature which exist now only as anachronisms .

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timekeeping misdate

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[ noun ] (sociology) a person who seems to be displaced in time; who belongs to another age

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anomaly

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