anachronism
/əˈnækɹəˌnɪzəm/
something placed in the wrong historical period
anachronism in a sentence
“A wristwatch in a Roman epic would be an anachronism.”
Origin of anachronism
Greek anachronismos reference to wrong time from ana- against + chronos time
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