juxtaposition

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: jux=ta=po=si=tion

CIDE DICTIONARY

juxtaposition, n. [L. juxta near + positio position: cf. F. juxtaposition. See Just, v. i., and Position.].

 A placing or being placed in nearness or contiguity, or side by side; as, a juxtaposition of words.  [1913 Webster]
"Parts that are united by a a mere juxtaposition."  [1913 Webster]
"Juxtaposition is a very unsafe criterion of continuity."  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

juxtaposition

abutment, abuttal, accession, addition, adjacency, adjoiningness, adjunct, adjunction, affixation, agglutination, annexation, apposition, appulse, assemblage, assembly, attachment, augmentation, call-up, canvass, census, collection, colligation, collocation, combination, comparison, concourse, concurrence, confluence, conflux, congregation, conjugation, conjunction, connection, conterminousness, contiguity, convergence, corralling, coterminousness, data-gathering, gathering, increase, ingathering, inventory, joining, junction, mobilization, muster, perigee, perihelion, prefixation, reinforcement, rodeo, roundup, suffixation, superaddition, superfetation, superjunction, superposition, supplementation, survey, syzygy, union, uniting

ROGET THESAURUS

juxtaposition

Contiguity

N contiguity, contact, proximity, apposition, abuttal, juxtaposition, abutment, osculation, meeting, appulse, rencontre, rencounter, syzygy, coincidence, coexistence, adhesion, touching, (touch), borderland, frontier, tangent, abutter, contiguous, touching, in contact, conterminous, end to end, osculatory, pertingent, tangential, hand to hand, close to, with no interval.