anachronism

(ə-năkˈrə-nĭzˌəm)

1. The representation of someone as existing or something as happening in other than chronological, proper, or historical order.
2. One that is out of its proper or chronological order, especially a person or practice that belongs to an earlier time: “A new age had plainly dawned, an age that made the institution of a segregated picnic seem an anachronism” (Henry Louis Gates, Jr.)

Related Forms:

• a·nachˌro·nisˈtic, a·nachˈro·nous (-nəs) adjective

• a·nachˌro·nisˈti·cal·ly, a·nachˈro·nous·ly adverb