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Defenition of the word emphasis

    • Defenition of the word emphasis

      • Special importance or significance.
      • special and significant stress by means of position or repetition e.g.
      • special importance or significance; "the red light gave the central figure increased emphasis"; "the room was decorated in shades of gray with distinctive red accents"
      • the relative prominence of a syllable (especially with regard to stress or pitch); "he put the stress on the wrong syllable"
      • intensity or forcefulness of expression: "the vehemence of his denial" or "his emphasis on civil rights"
      • intensity or forcefulness of expression; "the vehemence of his denial"; "his emphasis on civil rights"
      • the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch); "he put the stress on the wrong syllable"
      • intensity or forcefulness of expression
      • the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch)
      • special importance or significance

    Synonyms for the word emphasis

      • accent
      • accentuation
      • highlighting
      • importance
      • prominence
      • stress
      • vehemence
      • weight

    Similar words in the emphasis

      • emphasis
      • emphasis's

    Hyponyms for the word emphasis

      • accentuation
      • focus
      • overemphasis
      • pitch accent
      • sentence stress
      • stress
      • tonic accent
      • topicalization
      • word accent
      • word stress

    Hypernyms for the word emphasis

      • grandness
      • importance
      • inflection
      • intensity
      • intensiveness
      • prosody
      • rhetorical device

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