(n.) 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.
Example Sentences:
(1) Despite 50 years of intensive research in the field of RFs, autoimmunity and chronic inflammation, some of the serological tests used for measuring autoantibodies remain an anachronism.
(2) Miliband, as I observed some time ago in a piece for ConservativeHome , should have dismissed as a preposterous anachronism the Tory attack on the trade union link.
(3) In order to have an impact on the vast population, that kind of anachronism must be addressed.
(4) What better reason to get rid of it as an economically and ethically unjustifiable anachronism from a bygone age, exploited now only by the richest in our society so that they can get richer at cost to all the rest of us?
(5) Like its predecessors (The Tudors, Spartacus, Camelot etc) the 10-part potboiler is awash with wrecking ball exposition, window-rattling anachronisms and scenes in which heritage hardbodies have shouting backwards sex next to stupefied livestock.
(6) In the past she has gone on the attack, pointing out that the Booker criteria (Commonwealth writers yes, Americans no) might also be viewed as an anachronism.
(7) But it did have a very particular place in the Liberal Democrat heart, both because the ermine-trimmed anachronism that still co-writes Britain's law offends the party's modernity and rationalism, and because great Liberal heroes moved heaven and earth to reform the chamber a century ago.
(8) The whole thing is a mad anachronism,” Greer said.
(9) Aid projects in China and Russia will be cut, on the grounds that they have become anachronisms given the global clout of those economies.
(10) In an ere in which man is beginning to master and make his way into the various systems which surround him (atom, cosmic exploration, organ transplant, genetic manipulations...), a clinical practice which would remain centered on the various forms and apparent characteristics of psychic dysfunctioning, has become anachronical.
(11) Laboratory managers who eschew computer tools are now an anachronism; extinction of this species is imminent.
(12) American Indian tribes are seen as an anachronism by many non-Indian people.
(13) The non-dom loophole is an anachronism that should have been archived a long time ago.
(14) By the time the last club closed in the early 90s, they seemed a total anachronism.
(15) Despite truly heroic estimates of their economic value to the nation (at least $1bn a year), the red tape repeal days were mostly about removing anachronisms and correcting punctuation in the nation’s legislation.
(16) The G8 as an institution, after all, is an anachronism – a body without legitimacy or power, in the words of David Miliband last week.
(17) At the same time, the decline of the trade union movement has made many people believe that being a "worker" is something of an anachronism.
(18) Rebekah Anderson and Helen Fuller spent the month of their student elective in southern India and here reveal some of the dental anachronisms they encountered.
(19) The conclusion arrived at after a review of the relevant literature, coupled with current knowledge of the morphophysiological changes which take place in the transformation zone of the cervix, is that the term cervical erosion is an anachronism.
(20) There's a danger of anachronism here - it feels like a very modern civil partnership – as there is too with the boys' habit of saving slave girls, spoils of war, from ravishment by their fellow soldiers by claiming them chastely for themselves, and promising earnestly never to kill unarmed men.
Anachronistic
Definition:
(a.) Erroneous in date; containing an anachronism.
Example Sentences:
(1) Mohan also said it amounted to an "innocuous British institution", a phrase that inadvertently emphasised its anachronistic nature.
(2) Since the National Assistance Act of 1948, incremental reform and the emergence of new legislative provisions has created a labyrinthine and anachronistic legal framework that is now scarcely fit for purpose.
(3) IPA Freedom to Publish Committee chair Bjørn Smith-Simonsen called the prosecution "undemocratic, anachronistic and unworthy of a modern and open society ... Sanci is being harassed for doing his publisher's job.
(4) It may seem anachronistic to examine professional responsibility in the context of prison psychiatry, which is a relatively unpopular and often controversial health service activity.
(5) Clearly, Page 3 is ridiculous and anachronistic, and it never fails to astonish my American friends when they come to Britain (although I'm not quite sure why they should be so shocked, seeing as most of them come from the city of Rupert Murdoch's New York Post, which is no slouch itself at reducing women to sex objects ).
(6) They want to get round the pesky one-person-one-vote principle that democracies anachronistically cling to in the face of economic reality.
(7) Mr Rusbridger said: "Although the attorney general has won this appeal, we are delighted that the House of Lords' ruling unanimously vindicates the Guardian's position: that this anachronistic law is incompatible with the Human Rights Act and should be repealed by parliament."
(8) I couldn't write music that was too anachronistic, or music that had nothing to do with myself as a composer, so the result was a compromise: the feel of 19th-century salon music with 20th-century minimalist techniques.
(9) Her appearance was preceded by an advertisement, taken out in Thursday's Guardian newspaper, in which she described the Falklands as "an anachronistic colonial case in the South Atlantic".
(10) Their football here was reminiscent of that epic, anachronistic run to the semi-finals when they co-hosted the tournament in 2002: fluid, quick to the ball, bright and alert and, when everything clicks, making traffic cones of opponents.
(11) de Kruif's book, a best-seller in its day and influential among the young for a generation, now seems gauche and anachronistic.
(12) At the time, I thought this show was creepy as hell, with its weirdly obsessive celebration of “la famiglia” and “la mamma”, which, in fashion terms, meant having models carrying babies down the runway while wearing dresses embroidered with Clinton Cards-like slogans, such as “I love you, mamma!” and “Per la mamma piu bella del mondo!” (“For the most beautiful mother in the world!”) Now it turns out that the most offensive thing about this collection wasn’t that it looked like it heavily ripped off Angelina Jolie’s wedding dress, which featured expressions of love from her children, but rather that it was an expression of Dolce and Gabbana’s hilariously anachronistic opinions about parenting.
(13) The paper digresses on events leading to anachronistic acquisition of immortal growth by normally dependent cells as well as on the time and path dependent incidence of cancer, in vivo.
(14) Many cannot believe that a female minister has launched such a sexist, ageist, anachronistic campaign in a country where many other urgent problems remain to be addressed.
(15) Will Sturgeon of the Media Blog agrees that the Moir and Gill cases don't compare for any number of reasons, principally because the critic "provided a detailed, factual account of an act we were meant to find distasteful", while Moir's article was "baseless speculation and ugly anachronistic opinion, which is far easier to tear apart".
(16) But in America, where certain politicians have about as much understanding of the realities of women's biology and contraceptive needs as a dung beetle, the issue of how much control a woman is allowed to have over her own body remains anachronistically fraught.
(17) The very use of the term "assassination" - however inappropriate - and the insertion of the arch, anachronistic phrase "the coward" sends a subliminal message to the audience that this is art, that the Brad Pitt up there on screen is not the Brad Pitt of Mr & Mrs Smith or Oceans 13, but the Brad Pitt of Seven Years in Tibet and Babel.
(18) One consequence stemming from the conceptualization of a compensation neurosis is implicit adherence to the anachronistic mind-body dichotomy.
(19) Billy Hayes, general secretary of the CWU Rightwing detractors decry him as an anachronistic firebrand cast in the Scargill mould.
(20) In an era of virtual reality, interactive Wiis and 3D TVs, it is difficult to imagine a more anachronistic attraction than a crowded dark room peopled with static wax models.