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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(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.
[…] and can find no associates in size at a less distance than two centuries; and in arranging which the puzzled librarian must commit an anachronism in order to avoid an anatopism.
There is no anachronism in putting them together; it is a sort of anatopism rather; the painter has placed within our view two scenes which no mortal eye could have witnessed at the same time.
It is a remarkable fact that, so far as I can judge, no case of local inconsistency, not a single anatopism, can be brought home to the Iliad.
Much of the literature on the 'Japanese Miracle' (as well as on that vast anatopism, the transfer of Japanese recipes to Western countries) expatiates on […]
[…] the semiotic mechanism of reorganizing space in this manner as an anatopism. Anatopism renders places such as Bali equivalents of other places […]
Use anatopism when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Anatopism means (rare) A thing that is out of its proper place; the geographic counterpart to anachronism..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
A war elephant described rampaging through Tenochtitlan in a novel about the Aztec Empire would be an anatopism.
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