Anachronism vs. Parachronism

Anachronismnoun

A chronological mistake; the erroneous dating of an event, circumstance, or object.

Anachronismnoun

A person or thing which seems to belong to a different time or period of time.

Anachronismnoun

A misplacing or error in the order of time; an error in chronology by which events are misplaced in regard to each other, esp. one by which an event is placed too early; falsification of chronological relation.

Anachronismnoun

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

Anachronismnoun

an artifact that belongs to another time

Anachronismnoun

a person who seems to be displaced in time; who belongs to another age

Anachronism

An anachronism (from the Greek ἀνά ana, 'against' and χρόνος khronos, 'time') is a chronological inconsistency in some arrangement, especially a juxtaposition of persons, events, objects, language terms and customs from different time periods. The most common type of anachronism is an object misplaced in time, but it may be a verbal expression, a technology, a philosophical idea, a musical style, a material, a plant or animal, a custom, or anything else associated with a particular period that is placed outside its proper temporal domain.

Parachronismnoun

An error in chronological order in which something is ascribed a later time than the actual one; metachronism.

Parachronismnoun

An error in chronology, by which the date of an event is set later than the time of its occurrence.