achronological
Not in order
Achronological means not following chronological order—events presented without regard to when they occurred.
A film might use achronological storytelling, jumping between past and future: The narrative unfolds achronologically, beginning with the protagonist's death.
The term appears in literary and film criticism to describe works that deliberately scramble time sequences.
Disordered, lacking arrangement
- scrambledMixed into disorder
- chaoticTotally without arrangement
- shuffledMixed into disorder
- nonlinearNot in sequence
out-of-order · disorganized · muddled · haphazard · random · unsorted · mixed-up · fragmented
Involuntary past memory
- flash-forwardNarrative leap to future
- nonlinearNot in sequence
- stream-of-consciousnessNarrative of unfiltered thought
- fracturedSplit or splintered
montage · backstory · vignette · episodic · mosaic · parallel · interwoven · braided
jumbled
Disordered, lacking arrangement
nonlinear · out-of-order · disorganized · muddled · haphazard · random · unsorted · mixed-up · fragmented · disjointed
flashback
Involuntary past memory
- flash-forwardNarrative leap to future
- nonlinearNot in sequence
- stream-of-consciousnessNarrative of unfiltered thought
fractured · montage · backstory · vignette · episodic · mosaic · parallel · interwoven · braided · nested
eternal
Lasting without end
perpetual · everlasting · timeless · unmoored
achronologicalchronological
Ordered by time
sequential · in order · linear · consecutive · diachronic
chronological, chronologically, chronology, chronologies, chronic, chronically, chronicle, chronicles, chronicler