Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The act or an instance of juxtaposing or the state of being juxtaposed.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of juxtaposing, or the state of being juxtaposed; the act of placing or the state of being placed in nearness or contiguity.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A placing or being placed in nearness or contiguity, or side by side.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
nearness of objects with nodelimiter . - noun The extra
emphasis given to acomparison when the contrasted objects are close together. - verb To place in juxtaposition.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the act of positioning close together (or side by side)
- noun a side-by-side position
Etymologies
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Examples
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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' 2005
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That can in practice mean not much more than what I called the juxtaposition of mutually non-communicating groups.
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Further, Traister examines both Bill Clinton and Barack Obama in juxtaposition with their wives.
Geri Spieler: Big Girls Don't Cry by Rebecca Traister Geri Spieler 2010
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Further, Traister examines both Bill Clinton and Barack Obama in juxtaposition with their wives.
Geri Spieler: Big Girls Don't Cry by Rebecca Traister Geri Spieler 2010
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Further, Traister examines both Bill Clinton and Barack Obama in juxtaposition with their wives.
Geri Spieler: Big Girls Don't Cry by Rebecca Traister Geri Spieler 2010
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Further, Traister examines both Bill Clinton and Barack Obama in juxtaposition with their wives.
Geri Spieler: Big Girls Don't Cry by Rebecca Traister Geri Spieler 2010
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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 darkerblogistan 2009
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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 2008
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Then in juxtaposition National Newswatch links to a dated article that warns Canadian children have received the HPV vaccine.
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And because an alternative opinion is here, in juxtaposition to your own.
oroboros commented on the word juxtaposition
With I plus Not-I equals Everything we can see the most interesting juxtaposition: "I + Not-I"
December 22, 2006
ezzackly commented on the word juxtaposition
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 11, 2009
Telofy commented on the word juxtaposition
Yay, I finally had opportunity to use it. Studying English is just marvelous.
October 23, 2009