Juxtaposition

Noun

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

Verb

 * 1) To place in juxtaposition.

Thesaurus
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, abutment, abuttal, accession, addition, adjacency, adjoiningness,

Etymology
From juxtaposition:, from  iuxta: from Latin iungo: + French position: from Latin pono:.

Related terms

 * juxtapose
 * juxtaposed

Noun

 * Finnish: vierekkäin asettelu
 * German: Juxtaposition, Nebeneinanderstellung
 * Icelandic: hliðsetning, hliðstaða
 * Kurdish: berhevdan, dan berhev
 * Polish: zestawienie, porównanie


 * Dutch: juxtapositie