metachronism

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Definitions of metachronism word

noun metachronism An error in chronological ordering in which a character or an event is placed at too late a time. 1
noun metachronism a chronological error, esp one in which an event is assigned to a date later than its occurrence 0

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This term is known only to a narrow circle of people with rare knowledge. Only 7% of English native speakers know the meaning of this word.

According to our data most of word are more popular. This word is almost not used. It has a much more popular synonym.

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misplacement — to put in a wrong place.
prolepsis — Rhetoric. the anticipation of possible objections in order to answer them in advance.
solecism — a nonstandard or ungrammatical usage, as unflammable and they was.
misdate — to assign or affix a wrong date to.
postdate — to date (a check, invoice, letter, document) with a date later than the actual date.

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