Anatopism
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Anatopism is a noun meaning (rare) A thing that is out of its proper place; the geographic counterpart to anachronism.
Meaning
(rare) A thing that is out of its proper place; the geographic counterpart to anachronism.
Example Sentences
A war elephant described rampaging through Tenochtitlan in a novel about the Aztec Empire would be an anatopism.
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.
[…] the semiotic mechanism of reorganizing space in this manner as an anatopism. Anatopism renders places such as Bali equivalents of other places […]
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 […]
Word Forms
- anatopisms
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include anachrony, anachronism, anancitis, archaicy, anastylosis, allochthone.
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