juxtaposition

Other forms of juxtaposition

plural

juxtapositions·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about juxtaposition

What does juxtaposition mean?

juxtaposition means "the act of positioning close together (or side by side)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in juxtaposition?

juxtaposition has 5 syllables: jux-ta-po-sit-ion. The stress falls on "sit". In IPA it is /ˌdʒʌkstəpəˈzɪʃən/.

What is another word for juxtaposition?

Close synonyms include apposition, collocation. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is juxtaposition a common word?

juxtaposition is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with juxtaposition?

21 words rhyme with juxtaposition. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.