chronoclasm
English
Etymology
From Ancient Greek χρόνος (khrónos, “time”), and κλάστης (klástēs, “a person who breaks something”); from κλάω (kláō, “break”)
Noun
chronoclasm (plural chronoclasms)
- The intentional destruction of clocks and other time artifacts
- (politics) The desire to crush the prevailing sense of time, due to a conflict regarding the fixation of linear time in a community
- A temporarily frazzled mental state resulting from confusion over what time it is.
- (science fiction) An interference with the course of history caused by time travel.
References
- Time, Work-Discipline and Industrial Capitalism - E P Thompson - PDF-version
- Mastered By The Clock: Time, Slavery, and Freedom in the American South
- "Chronoclasm" John Wyndham, 1953