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antichronological en · ADJ

Etymology

From anti- + chronological.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) 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: