Definition of Juxtaposition

Juxtaposition

A placing or being placed in nearness or contiguity, or side by side; as, a juxtaposition of words.

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As, Being, By, Contiguity, In, Juxtaposition, Nearness, Of, Or, Placed, Placing, Side

Juxtaposition Quotations

The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste.
Susan Sontag

I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning, or destroyed it altogether.
Alfred North Whitehead

I like the construction of sentences and the juxtaposition of words-not just how they sound or what they mean, but even what they look like.
Don DeLillo

Well, I know, after all, it is only juxtaposition, Juxtaposition, in short; and what is juxtaposition?
Arthur Hugh Clough

Words are not pebbles in alien juxtaposition.
Learned Hand

I'm getting a little bored by the juxtaposition of American and other cinema. I no longer think this division is as true as it might have been in the 1980s, or the early part of the 90s.
Wim Wenders

The Iraq War marked the beginning of the end of network news coverage. Viewers saw the juxtaposition of the embedded correspondents reporting the war as it was actually unfolding and the jaundiced, biased, negative coverage of these same events in the network newsrooms.
Dick Morris

To me this movie is about what is valuable. To one person it might be a stone; to someone else, a story in a magazine; to another, it is a child. The juxtaposition of one man obsessed with finding a valuable diamond with another man risking his life to find his son is the beating heart of this film.
Edward Zwick

I think we are all slightly down in the dumps after another loss. We may be in the wrong sign... Venus may be in the wrong juxtaposition with somewhere else.
Ted Dexter

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Juxtaposition Translations

juxtaposition in German is Nebeneinanderstellung
juxtaposition in Norwegian is sidestilling

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