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noun
The intentional destruction of clocks and other time artifacts
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noun
The desire to crush the prevailing sense of time, due to a conflict regarding the fixation of linear time in a community
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Topics: government, politics
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A temporarily frazzled mental state resulting from confusion over what time it is.
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An interference with the course of history caused by time travel.
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Topics: literature, media, publishing, science-fiction
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History
From Ancient Greek χρόνος (khrónos, “time”), and κλάστης (klástēs, “a person who breaks something”); from κλάω (kláō, “break”).
