anatopism.
A thing that is out of its proper place; the geographic counterpart to anachronism.
Meaning & usage
A thing that is out of its proper place; the geographic counterpart to anachronism.
A war elephant described rampaging through Tenochtitlan in a novel about the Aztec Empire would be an anatopism.
Where this word comes from
From Ancient Greek ἀνά (aná, “against”) and τόπος (tópos, “place”), apparently by analogy with anachronism.
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