nonce-wd. [f. Gr. ἄχρονος without time + -ISM.] The state of timelessness; deficiency of time.
1877. R. Lowe, in Daily News, 26 July, 3/3. It [House of Commons] has not got the element of time. It is smitten, if I may coin a word, not with an anachronism, but an achronism—viz. the absence of time.
¶ Occ. for ANACHRONISM, as if an achronism.
1674. Marvell, Rehearsall Transp., II. 135. I speak not of stale Achronismes, but of things that really happen’d all since the writing of your Reproof.
1697. Verdicts conc. Virgil & Homer, § 3. 8. All Authors have observed two … Faults of Achronism and Slander in that Episod of Dido.
