Anachronism in a sentence as a noun

Might help decrease the use of this ridiculous anachronism and save some trees.

While I agree that it's not as cut-and-dry "driving to an office in an anachronism!

Thus Feynman critique stands fresh and sound despite the anachronism.

We are in the year 2011, PL design has progressed so much since 1990 that such an anachronism is unpardonable.

"...users can't be bothered to come up with hierarchies...folders are an anachronism..."This is simply untrue.

You speak about tiling window managers as if they were already an anachronism in 1985.

The very fact that ICE is involved in IP enforcement is itself a pretty shameful anachronism.

It's nice because it makes something ordinary precious through anachronism and size.

>Regardless, the A-10 is an anachronism nowTrue>Its chief advantage was its ruggedness and ability to properly explore the battlefield when attackingWell, not really.

You're overly restricting the definition of skeuomorphism, or perhaps confusing it entirely with anachronism.

The aviation metaphor was intended to illustrate the anachronism underpinning Shaw's analysis.

I feel that tenure has become something of an anachronism, and when you see tenured professors who haven't had a grant in ten years sit in a circle, each one giving an easy job to the person on their right, and dropping the rest of the work on the untenured faculty it becomes very difficult to defend the practice.

Wouldn't it be more accurate to just call China an authoritarian or one-party state?Heck, even "socialism with Chinese characteristics" is a bit of an anachronism these days, and the people who take the old conception of it seriously are seen as left-wingers within the government; it's closer to "one-party capitalism with Chinese characteristics"...

Anachronism definitions

noun

something located at a time when it could not have existed or occurred

See also: mistiming misdating

noun

an artifact that belongs to another time

noun

a person who seems to be displaced in time; who belongs to another age