0 someone or something that seems to be old-fashioned and does not belong to the present time -- anakronisme
Such readings may serve a useful political purpose, but proceed from essentialist assumptions and are therefore susceptible to accusations of anachronism.
Next are the 'faux savants', all wearing gold spectacles; claiming science to be infallible, they chant contemporary scientific words with obvious anachronism.
This is an approach which avoids the appalling reductionism perpetrated in the name of psychohistory, but it cannot completely deflect accusations of anachronism.
The theme of this article is that computers have changed the world of mathematics forever, in the process making proof an anachronism.
The resulting texture created resembles a strange rural-urban blend, a sort of heterophonic tutti which is hard to grasp in its eclectic anachronism.
Although something of an anachronism, the typology is still a useful categorisation of the villagers' family support systems.
Before taking stock of early modern representations of the female intellect, a word about terminology and its load of anachronism is in order.
To discuss "secularization" and "professionalization" of science before the nineteenth century is, by general consensus, to flirt with anachronism.
