anatopism

[医] 失仪症

词形变化

anatopisms 复数 anatopisms

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A thing that is out of its proper place; the geographic counterpart to anachronism.

    罕用

    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.

词源

From Ancient Greek ἀνά (aná, “against”) and τόπος (tópos, “place”), apparently by analogy with anachronism.

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