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Apposition vs Juxtaposition - What's the difference?

apposition | juxtaposition |

In grammar terms the difference between apposition and juxtaposition

is that apposition is a construction in which one noun or noun phrase is placed with another as an explanatory equivalent, either having the same syntactic function in the sentence while juxtaposition is an absence of linking elements in a group of words that are listed together.

In rhetoric terms the difference between apposition and juxtaposition

is that apposition is appositio while juxtaposition is the close placement of two ideas to imply a link that may not exist.

As a verb juxtaposition is

to place in juxtaposition.

apposition

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (grammar) A construction in which one noun or noun phrase is placed with another as an explanatory equivalent, either having the same syntactic function in the sentence.
  • The relationship between such nouns or noun phrases.
  • The quality of being side-by-side, apposed instead of being opposed, not being front-to-front but next to each other.
  • A placing of two things side by side, or the fitting together of two things.
  • In biology, the growth of successive layers of a cell wall.
  • (rhetoric) Appositio

    • juxtaposition

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The nearness of objects with no delimiter.
  • # (grammar) An absence of linking elements in a group of words that are listed together.
  • Example: mother father'' instead of ''mother and father
  • # (mathematics) An absence of operators in an expression.
  • Using juxtaposition for multiplication saves space when writing longer expressions. a \times b \! collapses to ab\!.
  • #* 2007 , Lawrence Moss and Hans-Jörg Tiede, Applications of Modal Logic in Linguistics'', in: P. Blackburn et al (eds), ''Handbook of Modal Logic , Elsevier, p. 1054
  • A fundamental operation on strings is string concatenation which we will denote by juxtaposition .
  • The extra emphasis given to a comparison when the contrasted objects are close together.
    • There was a poignant juxtaposition between the boys laughing in the street and the girl crying on the balcony above.
  • # (arts) Two or more contrasting sounds, colours, styles etc. placed together for stylistic effect.
  • The juxtaposition of the bright yellows on the dark background made the painting appear three dimensional.
  • # (rhetoric) The close placement of two ideas to imply a link that may not exist.
  • Example: In 1965 the government was elected; in 1965 the economy took a dive.

    • Related terms

    * juxtapose * juxtaposed

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To place in juxtaposition.

    • References

    * DeLone et. al. (Eds.) (1975). Aspects of Twentieth-Century Music. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall. ISBN 0130493465. Music. ----