apposition

Noun

Meaning

The act of adding; application; accretion.

The putting of things in juxtaposition, or side by side; also, the condition of being so placed.

The state of two nouns or pronouns, put in the same case, without a connecting word between them; as, I admire Cicero, the orator. Here, the second noun explains or characterizes the first.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

collocation juxtaposition union addition contact meeting agreement connection concentration correspondence joining conjunction consistency convergence junction
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Antonyms

difference contrast conflict opposition arguing chaos
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Hypernyms

development position growth location growing limiting

Hyponyms

tessellation

Phrases with the word

apposition eye

Examples

But God who creates out of nothing, who almightily takes from nothing and says, ‘Be', lovingly adjoins, ‘Be something even in apposition to me.' Soren Kierkegaard

it is the result of the juxtaposition of contrasting colors Source: Internet

`Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer' is an example of apposition Source: Internet

But God who creates out of nothing, who almightily takes from nothing and says, ‘ Be ’, lovingly adjoins, ‘Be something even in apposition to me.’ Source: Internet

The apposition, or lamination, theory was improved by Eduard Strasburger (1882, 1889), as the intussusception theory was by Julius Wiesner (1886). Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

appositely appositeness appositio apposition eye appositional appositionally