lost in time
Swallowed by ages
Lost in time describes something so old, forgotten, or disconnected from the present that it seems to belong to another era entirely.
A remote village might appear lost in time, untouched by modern development.
The phrase also describes information or artifacts that have vanished beyond recovery: The origins of the tradition are lost in time.
Someone lost in time may be daydreaming or mentally elsewhere.
- ancient ruinsDecayed structures from antiquity
- anachronismHistorical time-placement error
- memory laneFigurative path through recollections
- bygoneOf earlier times
- good old daysIdealized past era
faded photograph · relic · immortality · agelessness · antiquity · eternity · changelessness · standing still · wistfulness · reminiscence · prehistoric · longing · infinity · retrospection · blast from the past · yearning · disorientation · sentimentality
lost in timeimmortalized
Made permanently remembered
remembered · never forgotten · commemorated · archived · legendary
lost in timein the moment
present-day · contemporary · current · here and now · synchronized
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