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The synonyms of “Juxtaposition” are: apposition, collocation, comparison, contrast
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “juxtaposition” as a noun can have the following definitions:
| apposition | The positioning of things side by side or close together. Rudolph the red nosed reindeer is an example of apposition. |
| collocation | A pair or group of words that are habitually juxtaposed. Strong tea and heavy drinker are typical English collocations. |
| comparison | The quality of being similar or equivalent. The two books invite comparison with one another. |
| contrast | The perceptual effect of the juxtaposition of very different colors. By contrast. |
| akin | Related by blood. A feeling akin to terror. |
| analogous | Similar or equivalent in some respects though otherwise dissimilar. They saw the relationship between a ruler and his subjects as analogous to that of father and children. |
| apposition | Growth in the thickness of a cell wall by the deposit of successive layers of material. Rudolph the red nosed reindeer is an example of apposition. |
| arrangement | The thing arranged or agreed to. By special arrangement students can take a course in other degree programmes. |
| assonance | Resemblance of sound between syllables of nearby words, arising particularly from the rhyming of two or more stressed vowels, but not consonants (e.g. sonnet, porridge), but also from the use of identical consonants with different vowels (e.g. killed, cold, culled. Alliterative assonances such as fail and fall are very common in Old English poetry. |
| broadly | Widely and openly. He interprets the law broadly. |
| close | Close in relevance or relationship. We are all in close sympathy with. |
| cognate | A word is cognate with another if both derive from the same word in an ancestral language. Cognate languages. |
| collocation | The action of placing things side by side or in position. Strong tea and heavy drinker are typical English collocations. |
| commensurate | Corresponding in size or degree; in proportion. Salary will be commensurate with age and experience. |
| connate | (especially of ideas or principles) existing in a person or thing from birth; innate. Connate qualities. |
| consistently | In a fair and impartial way. The vehicle consistently outperforms some of the best competitors. |
| equivalent | Belonging to the same equivalence class. Some regulations are equivalent to censorship. |
| figurative | Not literal; using figures of speech. The figurative art of the humanistic tradition. |
| grammar | A book on grammar. It was not bad grammar just dialect. |
| interchangeable | Such that the arguments or roles can be interchanged. Interchangeable parts. |
| language | Coarse or offensive language. Language development. |
| lineation | The line that appears to bound an object. The punctuation and lineation are reproduced accurately. |
| link | Be or become joined or united or linked. Ministers are the vital link in the chain between the civil service and Parliament. |
| parallel | One of a set of parallel geometric figures parallel lines or planes. A challenge which has no parallel in peacetime this century. |
| phrase | Divide music into phrases in a particular way especially in performance. The succession of downward phrases in the orchestra is so moving. |
| proportionate | Agreeing in amount, magnitude, or degree. Proportionate representation of a minority group. |
| same | Similarly in the same way. He s worked at the same place for quite a few years. |
| similar | A person or thing similar to another. The principle of treatment by similars. |
| studied | Produced or marked by conscious design or premeditation- V.L.Parrington. He treated them with studied politeness. |
| symmetrical | Made up of exactly similar parts facing each other or around an axis; showing symmetry. The shape of a hill smooth and symmetrical. |
| synonymous | Meaning the same or nearly the same. His deeds had made his name synonymous with victory. |
| term | Give a descriptive name to call by a specified term. A healthy baby born at full term. |
| verb | Use a word that is not conventionally used as a verb typically a noun as a verb. Any English noun can be verbed but some are more resistant than others. |
| word | A command password or signal. I was afraid to leave Edinburgh in case there was word from the War Office. |
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