La faute qui consiste ŕ placer un fait, un événement avant sa date. Virgile s'est permis un anachronisme en supposant Énée contemporain de Didon.
ETYM Greek, to refer to a wrong time, to confound times; ana + kronos time: cf. French anachronisme.
1. A person who seems to be displaced in time; who belongs to another age.
2. An artifact that belongs to another time.
3. Something located at a time when it could not have existed or occurred; SYN. mistiming, misdating.
Error in chronology, especially of dating event before its correct date; thing impossible or absurd by reason of such error.