anachronism-anacronismo: meaning, definitions and translations

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What is anachronism? anachronism is anacronismo

What is anacronismo?

  • The representation of someone as existing or something as happening in other than chronological, proper, or historical order.

    A representação de alguém tão existente ou algo como acontecendo em outras que não seja a ordem cronológica, adequada ou histórica.

  • One that is out of its proper or chronological order, especially a person or practice that belongs to an earlier time: "A new age had plainly dawned, an age that made the institution of a segregated picnic seem an anachronism” ( Henry Louis Gates, Jr.)

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