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Juxtaposition definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

JUXTAPOSI'TION, n. [L. juxta,near, and position.]
A placing or being placed in nearness or contiguity; as the parts of a substance or of a composition. The connection of words is sometimes to be ascertained by juxtaposition.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: the act of positioning close together (or side by side); "it is the result of the juxtaposition of contrasting colors" [syn: juxtaposition, apposition, collocation]
2: a side-by-side position

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Latin juxta near + English position — more at joust Date: 1654 the act or an instance of placing two or more things side by side; also the state of being so placed • juxtapositional adjective

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Juxtaposition Jux`ta*po*si"tion, n. [L. juxta near + positio position: cf. F. juxtaposition. See Just, v. i., and Position.] A placing or being placed in nearness or contiguity, or side by side; as, a juxtaposition of words. Parts that are united by a a mere juxtaposition. --Glanvill. Juxtaposition is a very unsafe criterion of continuity. --Hare.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(juxtapositions) The juxtaposition of two contrasting objects, images, or ideas is the fact that they are placed together or described together, so that the differences between them are emphasized. (FORMAL) This juxtaposition of brutal reality and lyrical beauty runs through Park's stories. N-VAR: usu N of n

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Proximity, contiguity, contact, adjacency.

Moby Thesaurus

abutment, abuttal, accession, addition, adjacency, adjoiningness, adjunct, adjunction, affixation, agglutination, annexation, apposition, appulse, assemblage, assembly, attachment, augmentation, call-up, canvass, census, collection, colligation, collocation, combination, comparison, concourse, concurrence, confluence, conflux, congregation, conjugation, conjunction, connection, conterminousness, contiguity, convergence, corralling, coterminousness, data-gathering, gathering, increase, ingathering, inventory, joining, junction, mobilization, muster, perigee, perihelion, prefixation, reinforcement, rodeo, roundup, suffixation, superaddition, superfetation, superjunction, superposition, supplementation, survey, syzygy, union, uniting