English Explanatory Dictionary

catachronism

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The recharacterization of the present in terms of inexorable outcomes in the future.

Word forms

catachronism catachronisms

Etymology

From Ancient Greek κατά (katá, “downwards”) and anachronism. See cata-.

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