juxtaposition
UK/ˌd͡ʒʌk.stə.pəˈzɪʃ.ən/
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Australia/ˌd͡ʒɐk.stə.pəˈzɪʃ.ən/
juxtaposition noun: the nearness of objects with little or no delimiter.
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Noun
juxtaposition (countable and uncountable, plural juxtapositions)
- The nearness of objects with little or no delimiter.
- It is the object of the mechanical atomistic philosophy to confound synthesis with synartesis, or rather with mere juxtaposition of corpuscles separated by invisible interspaces.1809, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Friend
- Synonyms:
- apposition
- An absence of linking elements in a group of words that are listed together.
- Example: mother father instead of mother and father
- An absence of operators in an expression.
- Using juxtaposition for multiplication saves space when writing longer expressions. a#92;timesb collapses to ab.
- A fundamental operation on strings is string concatenation which we will denote by juxtaposition.2007, Lawrence Moss, Hans-Jörg Tiede, “Applications of Modal Logic in Linguistics”, in P. Blackburn et al., editors, Handbook of Modal Logic, Elsevier, page 1054
- The extra emphasis given to a comparison when the contrasted objects are close together.
- There was a poignant juxtaposition between the boys laughing in the street and the girl crying on the balcony above.
- Two or more contrasting sounds, colours, styles etc. placed together for stylistic effect.
- The juxtaposition of the bright yellows on the dark background made the painting appear three dimensional.
- Her mother favored a multiyear project: obscenities carved in intricate and clever juxtapositions, descending every finger, curling in lettered whorls across the palm, fanning in offensive rays across the opisthenar, which is the name for the back of the hand, a word that Leilani knew because she...2001, Dean R. Koontz, One Door Away from Heaven, Random House, →ISBN, page 497
- The close placement of two ideas to imply a link that may not exist.
- Example: In 1965 the government was elected; in 1965 the economy took a dive.
Verb
juxtaposition (third-person singular simple present juxtapositions, present participle juxtapositioning, simple past and past participle juxtapositioned)
- To place in juxtaposition.
juxtaposition meaning in Tamil, Urdu and Tagalog
juxtaposition in Tamil
- அடுத்தடுத்து வைத்தல், பக்க அணிமை நிலை, அணுக்கவிருப்பு, அண்மை நிலை
juxtaposition in Urdu
- دوش با دوش, نزدیکی, پیوستگی, قربت
juxtaposition in Tagalog
- the nearness of objects with little or no delimiter
- pagkakaiba
Examples of juxtaposition in a sentence
- The juxtaposition of his literary and letterly writing is revealing of both canons.
- By their juxtaposition with perfectly colloquial idioms, these words present the erroneous appearance of neologism.
- The juxtaposition of the mask and the silenic face not only invites but also necessitates their complementary interpretation.
Synonyms of juxtaposition
Forms of juxtaposition
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | juxtapositions |
| alternative form | juxta-position |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | juxtapositions |
| present participle | juxtapositioning |
| past participle | juxtapositioned |
| past | juxtapositioned |
Origin of juxtaposition
Borrowed from French juxtaposition, from Latin iuxtā (“near”) (from Latin iungō (“to join”)) + French position (“position”) (from Latin pōnō (“to place”)).
Words formed from juxtaposition
Questions about juxtaposition
- What does juxtaposition mean?
- Juxtaposition means the nearness of objects with little or no delimiter.
- What is juxtaposition in Tamil?
- Juxtaposition in Tamil is அடுத்தடுத்து வைத்தல், பக்க அணிமை நிலை, அணுக்கவிருப்பு. See Juxtaposition meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is juxtaposition?
- Juxtaposition can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce juxtaposition?
- Juxtaposition is pronounced /ˌd͡ʒʌk.stə.pəˈzɪʃ.ən/ (UK).
- What is the plural of juxtaposition?
- The plural of juxtaposition is juxtapositions.
Words near juxtaposition in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: juxtaposition (page history and authors); juxtaposition (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); juxtaposition (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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