juxtology
/ˈd͡ʒʌkstɑləd͡ʒi/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
27
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "1989 R.A. Shoaf, "Medieval Studies After Derrida, After Heidigger," in Julian N. Wasserman, Sign, Sentence, Discourse: Language in Medieval Thought and Literature, Syracuse University Press, 1989. Juxtology emerges from the ancient epistemology of knowledge by contraries and pursues, by comparisons - be they of thinkers and their ideas or of the minutest items of a text, syllables and even individual letters - the aleatory juxtapositions of minds or of sounds that produce the phenomena of meanings. So doing, juxtology recognizes the ontology of error and its necessity: we humans come to the truth only by wandering."
- "Similarly, Dante's intertextual method in constructing his poem can be compared to the modern concept of bricolage, but it is more appropriate to evince here Shoaf's concept of juxtology, a practice by which diverse materials and concepts are linked together in medieval texts."
- "2001 James L. Paxton, "Inventing the Subject and the Personification of Will in Piers Plowman," in Kathleen M. Hewett-Smith, William Langland's Piers Plowman: A Book of Essays, Psychology Press, 2001. Page 225. The allegorical tropes paranomasia and syllepsis, or rather, their compositional practice juxtology, situates Langland's cognitive allegory in the context of the poet's social and political obsession - ..."
Etymology
Combination of juxta- (“alongside”) + -ology ("study of"). Apparently coined by R. Allen Shoaf in the 1980s