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Definition of "juxtaposition" []

  • The act or an instance of juxtaposing or the state of being juxtaposed. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "juxtaposition" in a sentence
  • "That can in practice mean not much more than what I called the juxtaposition of mutually non-communicating groups."
  • "Further, Traister examines both Bill Clinton and Barack Obama in juxtaposition with their wives."
  • "The juxtaposition is just too strange, with the somber foreign horror followed up by another glib, pleasing but predictable Apatowesque comedy."