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anatopism

noun

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

    rare

    A war elephant described rampaging through Tenochtitlan in a novel about the Aztec Empire would be an anatopism.

Where it comes from

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

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry anatopism (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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