anatopism
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
1
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
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."
- "[…] 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 […]"
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ἀνά (aná, “against”) and τόπος (tópos, “place”), apparently by analogy with anachronism.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: ἀνά