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