artifact vs anachronism

anachronism vs artifact

artifact and anachronism both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
artifact	Yes	No	No	No
anachronism	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, anachronism is a hyponym of artifact; that is, anachronism is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than artifact:

artifact: a man-made object taken as a whole
anachronism: an artifact that belongs to another time

Other hyponyms of artifact include article, facility, Americana, antiquity, block, button, commodity, good, trade good, cone, covering, creation, decker, decoration, ornament, ornamentation, electroplate, excavation, duplicate, extra, cloth, fabric, material, textile, facility, installation, fixture, float, insert, inset, instrumentality, instrumentation, means, bed, layer, lemon, stinker, line, marker, mystification, opening, cushioning, padding, plaything, toy, ready-made, restoration, flat solid, sheet, sphere, square, squeaker, slip, strip, construction, structure, surface, thing, track, way, weight, building material, pavement, paving, paving material.

artifact (noun)	anachronism (noun)
a man-made object taken as a whole	an artifact that belongs to another time
	a person who seems to be displaced in time; who belongs to another age
	something located at a time when it could not have existed or occurred

Difference between artifact and anachronism

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