paratopismnonce-wd.|pəˈrætəpɪz(ə)m| [f. para-1 1 + Gr. τόπος place + -ism: cf. parachronism.] (See quot.) 1851Fraser's Mag. XLIII. 89 We want some word which will bear the same relation to place as anachronism does to time—for his paratopisms, let us say.