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Placing two things side by side so they can insult or flatter each other silently.
means The act of placing two or more things close together, especially so their differences or similarities become obvious.
from Built from Latin iuxta, meaning 'next to' or 'close by,' fused with positio, 'a placing' (from ponere, 'to put'). The word traveled into French as juxtaposition before settling into English in the 17th century, carrying its original job intact: to describe things set deliberately shoulder to shoulder for comparison.
- etymology
- Latin iuxta, meaning next to, plus position
- used in
- art, film, rhetoric, awkward family photos
- power move
- contrast does the arguing so you don't have to
- classic example
- ruins next to skyscrapers, silence next to sirens