Meaning of Juxtaposition | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The nearness of objects with little or no delimiter.
   countable, uncountable
2. An absence of linking elements in a group of words that are listed together.
   countable, uncountable
3. An absence of operators in an expression.
   countable, uncountable
4. The extra emphasis given to a comparison when the contrasted objects are close together.
   countable, uncountable
5. Two or more contrasting sounds, colours, styles etc. placed together for stylistic effect.
   countable, uncountable
6. The close placement of two ideas to imply a link that may not exist.
   countable, rhetoric, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“Example: mother father instead of mother and father”

“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.”

“There was a poignant juxtaposition between the boys laughing in the street and the girl crying on the balcony above.”

“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 had studied the structure of the human hand in detail, the better to understand her difference.”

“Example: In 1965 the government was elected; in 1965 the economy took a dive.”

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