chronoclasm

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The intentional destruction of clocks and other time artifacts
  2. The desire to crush the prevailing sense of time, due to a conflict regarding the fixation of linear time in a community
  3. A temporarily frazzled mental state resulting from confusion over what time it is.
  4. An interference with the course of history caused by time travel.

Word forms

chronoclasm chronoclasms

Etymology

From Ancient Greek χρόνος (khrónos, “time”), and κλάστης (klástēs, “a person who breaks something”); from κλάω (kláō, “break”).

This entry uses open data from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA/GFDL). Word forms are used for search and are not indexed as separate pages.