anachronist

One misplacing time

An anachronist is someone who seems to belong to a different era, or who deliberately adopts the customs, dress, or attitudes of an earlier time.

The term often carries affection: He's an anachronist who writes letters by hand and refuses to own a cell phone.

Members of historical reenactment groups sometimes call themselves anachronists.

scholarly

historian

Expert on past events

chronologistOne who sequences events
paleographerScholar of ancient handwriting
philologistScholar of language history

archivist · medievalist · classicist · antiquary · curator · researcher · archaeologist · numismatist · manuscript · codex

misplacement

displaced

Shifted from proper location

incongruousNot fitting together harmoniously
misfitOne who doesn't fit in
outdatedNo longer in use

obsolete · archaic · outmoded · behind-the-times · fish-out-of-water

nostalgia

antiquarian

Scholar of old artifacts

vintageQuality from past eras
retroEvoking recent past
old-fashionedBelonging to earlier times

traditionalist · sentimentalist · romantic · classicist · purist · revivalist · restorationist · preservationist · retrograde · backward-looking

Opposites

temporal orientation

anachronistfuturist

Tomorrow trends scholar

futurologist · visionary · transhumanist · prognosticator · progressivist

relationship to change and progress

anachronistmodernist

Advocate of experimental forms

progressive · innovator · avant-gardist · modernizer · neophile

Family

anachronism, anachronistic, anachronistically

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