Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The act or an instance of juxtaposing or the state of being juxtaposed.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of juxtaposing, or the state of being juxtaposed; the act of placing or the state of being placed in nearness or contiguity.
Wiktionary
- n. The nearness of objects with no delimiter.
- n. The extra emphasis given to a comparison when the contrasted objects are close together.
- v. To place in juxtaposition.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A placing or being placed in nearness or contiguity, or side by side.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the act of positioning close together (or side by side)
- n. a side-by-side position
Etymologies
- From French juxtaposition, from Latin iuxtā ("near") from Latin iungō ("to join") + French position ("position") from Latin pōnō ("to place"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“That can in practice mean not much more than what I called the juxtaposition of mutually non-communicating groups.”
David Nicholls Memorial Lecture: 'Law, Power and Peace: Christian Perspectives on Sovereignty'
“Further, Traister examines both Bill Clinton and Barack Obama in juxtaposition with their wives.”
The Huffington Post: Geri Spieler: Big Girls Don't Cry by Rebecca Traister
“The juxtaposition is just too strange, with the somber foreign horror followed up by another glib, pleasing but predictable Apatowesque comedy.”
WATCHING: Waltz with Bashir; I Love You, Man; Knowing; The Kite Runner
“Then in juxtaposition National Newswatch links to a dated article that warns Canadian children have received the HPV vaccine.”
National Newswatch Trying To Tell Us Something? « Unambiguously Ambidextrous
“And because an alternative opinion is here, in juxtaposition to your own.”
“Although Ms. al-jafaari takes a shot at Avigdor Lieberman, placing him in juxtaposition with the neo-nazi Stormfront crowd, I would like to point out that Mr. Lieberman is one of the few Israeli politicians to address the economic aspects of the Israel/Palestinian issue.”
“There were some excellent ones of him in juxtaposition to his enormous indigenous art collection, and there was a very powerful one of him as late as 1989 when he was already 90 years old, still vigorous and working in his studio.”
“(I agree with you and Alex, et alii, about the obscene salaries these players get, especially in juxtaposition to teachers, and those who captain the ship of state.)”
“If you want to compare what I say – 'to put my words in juxtaposition with' – vile racism, once again, go for it.”
Dawkins Regards a Supernatural Designer as a Scientific Hypothesis
“I just put it in juxtaposition with your sweeping presumption that "It's all about politics rather than science" and that "If that turns out to be a net liability, [Dawkins will] have a change of heart.”
Dawkins Regards a Supernatural Designer as a Scientific Hypothesis
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘juxtaposition’.
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Impressionism
Words that describe the art of the impressionist era.
seascapes, landscapes, modern, impression, impressionist, contemporary, flicker, sensation, modernity, perceived, perceiving, momentary and 142 more...
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Words build meanings from origins( et...
These come from gamma meditation ,I think.
discursive, exogenous, machinations, purportedly, sumptuous, congruity, cantankerous, incongruous, festoon, hessian, ratiocinative, stratigraphic and 2053 more...
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Favorite Words Ending In 'tion
obfuscation, delineation, ratiocination, proprioception, gesticulation, oscillation, undulation, fasciculation, confabulation, interdiction, juxtaposition, commiseration and 41 more...
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Wordaliciousness
Words of a delicious nature ... for whatever reason
@, libidinous, existential, vespertine, draconian, quixotic, pragmatic, incongruous, thrisis, euphemism, eccentric, anachronism and 12 more...
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It's All Just Words.
quixotic, penisaurus rex, plibt, pot, polaroid, gemütlichkeit, hey! pooper scoop..., nowhere, anywhere, somewhere, elsewhere, wherever and 80 more...
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Ezzackly's list
Words I like.
exacerbate, queerious, whom, hyperbolic, paradoxically, consequently, anana, forte, indicative, agnostic, monotonous, supposedly and 18 more...
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Vocabulary
shibboleth, verboten, jejune, ostensible, multifarious, quintessence, purportedly, tangential, vacillate, quagmire, wanton, onerous and 74 more...
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gre words
convoluted, deride, melancholy, antagonize, antagonize, deference, portentous, prodigious, ruminate, ineffable, turgid, mossy and 58 more...
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Words for my English Learners
vast, superfluous, inevitable, though, pervasive, overwhelm, assume, presume, curious, eccentric, whimsical, quaint and 12 more...
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ShellyKramer's list
No description, just words I like
bodacious, usurp, circuituous, conundrum, juxtaposition, veracity, vehemence, velocity
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A Refined Lexicon
ambivalence, ambivalent, equivocal, equivocation, equivocate, prevaricate, prevarication, quietude, quiescent, quiescence, vanquish, pluviosity and 137 more...
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Twitter faves
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favourite word" and adds it to this list.
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niglets, aw, flakey, shiznit, thatch, sexy, bummers, hotty, eargasms, ratchetry, weird, fab and 457 more... -
All The Words
I enjoy collecting words, for I have no fear of them ever running out.
tatterdemalion, panopticon, idioglossia, hypnagogue, hypnopomp, defenestration, anacoluthon, scofflaw, affront, edifying, palimpsest, naufrage and 476 more...
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Twitter favourites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favourite word" and adds it to this list.
See also:
thunderfuck, incredible, merp, sara, flopparoo, smother, fugly, buer, plum, canny, nefelibata, cuntbucket and 1972 more... -
five syllables
ontogenesis, phylogenesis, concatenation, androgenesis, extra textual, inexorably, spagyrically, apophenia, iatrochemist, monocotyloid, morphological, parthenogenic and 941 more...
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Words
My list of words.
veritable, facetious, nadir, quixotic, apropos, acquiesce, ostensible, insipid, egregious, inveterate, coax, adroit and 409 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for juxtaposition.
Telofy Yay, I finally had opportunity to use it. Studying English is just marvelous. Oct 22, 2009
ezzackly I think it's an interesting juxtaposition to see the large amount of people who added juxtaposition compared to the small amount of people who have commented on it. May 10, 2009
oroboros With I plus Not-I equals Everything we can see the most interesting juxtaposition: "I + Not-I" Dec 22, 2006