Saturday, September 5, 2015

anatopism

anatopism (plural anatopisms)
  1. (rare) A thing that is out of its proper place; the geographic counterpart to anachronism.
    A war elephant described rampaging through Tenochtitlan in a novel about the Aztec Empire would be an anatopism.

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