juxtaposition en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ˌd͡ʒʌk.stə.pəˈzɪʃ.ən/ (Canada, General-American, Received-Pronunciation)
- /ˌd͡ʒɐk.stə.pəˈzəʃ.ən/ (New-Zealand)
- /ˌd͡ʒɐk.stə.pəˈzɪʃ.ən/ (Australia)
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Etymology
Borrowed from French juxtaposition, from Latin iuxtā (“near”) (from Latin iungō (“to join”)) + French position (“position”) (from Latin pōnō (“to place”)).
Meanings
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(countable, uncountable) 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:
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(countable, uncountable) The nearness of objects with little or no delimiter. ▸ An absence of linking elements in a group of words that are listed together.
Example: mother father instead of mother and father
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(countable, uncountable) The nearness of objects with little or no delimiter. ▸ 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:
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(countable, uncountable) 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.
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(countable, uncountable) The extra emphasis given to a comparison when the contrasted objects are close together. ▸ Two or more contrasting sounds, colours, styles etc. placed together for stylistic effect.
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 had studied the structure of the human hand in detail, the better to understand her difference.
2001, Dean R. Koontz, One Door Away from Heaven, Random House, →ISBN, page 497:The juxtaposition of the bright yellows on the dark background made the painting appear three dimensional.
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(countable, rhetoric, uncountable) The extra emphasis given to a comparison when the contrasted objects are close together. ▸ 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.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| juxtapositions | Number=Plur | lexicographic | |
| juxta-position | alternative | lexicographic |
Deriveds
Hypernyms
Relateds
juxtaposed · juxtapositive · juxtapose
Synonyms
apposition · apposition · apposition
Translations (26)
sv sida vid sida (extra emphasis given to a comparison) · eo nominacio (grammar: absence of linking elements in a group of words that are listed together) · hu egymásmellettiség (the nearness of objects with little or no delimiter) · bg контра́ст (arts: contrasting sounds or colours) · ca juxtaposició (the nearness of objects with little or no delimiter) · fr juxtaposition (the nearness of objects with little or no delimiter) · ka შედარება (extra emphasis given to a comparison) · ka შედარება (mathematics: absence of operators) · ka შედარება (grammar: absence of linking elements in a group of words that are listed together) · ka შედარება (arts: contrasting sounds or colours) · ga neas-suíomh (mathematics: absence of operators) · hu egymás mellé állítás/helyezés (the nearness of objects with little or no delimiter) · fi vierekkäin asettelu (the nearness of objects with little or no delimiter) · ka სიახლოვე (the nearness of objects with little or no delimiter) · eo kunmeto (the nearness of objects with little or no delimiter) · ca juxtaposició (grammar: absence of linking elements in a group of words that are listed together) · hu párosítás (arts: contrasting sounds or colours) · ru бли́зость (the nearness of objects with little or no delimiter) · de Juxtaposition (mathematics: absence of operators) · hu szembeállítás (extra emphasis given to a comparison) · de Gegenüberstellung (extra emphasis given to a comparison) · tl pagkakaiba (the nearness of objects with little or no delimiter) · pt justaposição (grammar: absence of linking elements in a group of words that are listed together) · nl juxtapositie (arts: contrasting sounds or colours) · bg съпоста́вяне (the nearness of objects with little or no delimiter) · hu szembenállás (extra emphasis given to a comparison)