• LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    anachronism? I think you mean analogy or metaphor.

    a·nach·ro·nism: a thing belonging or appropriate to a period other than that in which it exists, especially a thing that is conspicuously old-fashioned.