A word to throw into a Module B exam tomorrow

Anachronistic.

It can mean outside its proper time, in reference to an idea that has become an anachronism and should have expired… but I think it’s more useful for describing a non-linear style (that is, that ideas exist outside of their historical chronological order).

The word came from no-where in particular, I was just reading an essay and remembered that word but couldn’t remember what it meant, exactly, so I went and looked it up. The end.