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antichronological

antichronological adjective: in reversed chronological order; working backwards through time.

Adjective

antichronological (not comparable)

  1. In reversed chronological order; working backwards through time.
    • In theory, there could be two ways of working a coherent, connected, systematic account of a person — the chronological, which proceeds backward (so to speak) from the beginning to the end and the antichronological, which proceeds from the end to the beginning.1998, Nicholas Rescher, Communicative Pragmatism and Other Philosophical Essays on Language

Origin of antichronological

From anti- + chronological.

Questions about antichronological

What does antichronological mean?
Antichronological means in reversed chronological order; working backwards through time.
What part of speech is antichronological?
Antichronological is an adjective.

Words near antichronological in the dictionary

  1. antichrists
  2. antichromatin
  3. antichronical
  4. antichronism
  5. antichronisms
  6. antichronological
  7. antichthon
  8. Antichthones
  9. antichthonic
  10. antichthons
  11. antichurch

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