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Definition of Emphasis
1. Noun. Special importance or significance. "The room was decorated in shades of grey with distinctive red accents"
Generic synonyms: Grandness, Importance
Specialized synonyms: Focus, Stress
Derivative terms: Accent, Accentuate, Emphasize, Emphatic
2. Noun. Intensity or forcefulness of expression. "His emphasis on civil rights"
Generic synonyms: Intensity, Intensiveness
Specialized synonyms: Overemphasis
Derivative terms: Emphatic, Emphatic
3. Noun. Special and significant stress by means of position or repetition e.g..
4. Noun. The relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch). "He put the stress on the wrong syllable"
Generic synonyms: Inflection, Prosody
Specialized synonyms: Accentuation, Pitch Accent, Tonic Accent, Word Accent, Word Stress, Sentence Stress
Derivative terms: Accent, Accentual, Accentual, Accentuate, Emphatic, Emphatic, Stress
Definition of Emphasis
1. n. A particular stress of utterance, or force of voice, given in reading and speaking to one or more words whose signification the speaker intends to impress specially upon his audience.
Definition of Emphasis
1. Noun. Special weight or forcefulness given to something considered important. ¹
2. Noun. Special attention or prominence given to something. ¹
3. Noun. Prominence given to a syllable or words, by raising the voice or printing in italic or underlined type. ¹
4. Noun. (typography) Related to bold. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Emphasis
1. special significance imparted to something [n -PHASES]
Medical Definition of Emphasis
1. Origin: L, fr. Gr. Significance, force of expression, fr. To show in, indicate; in + to show. See In, and Phase. 1. A particular stress of utterance, or force of voice, given in reading and speaking to one or more words whose signification the speaker intends to impress specially upon his audience. "The province of emphasis is so much more important than accent, that the customary seat of the latter is changed, when the claims of emphasis require it." (E. Porter) 2. A peculiar impressiveness of expression or weight of thought; vivid representation, enforcing assent; as, to dwell on a subject with great emphasis. "External objects stand before us . . . In all the life and emphasis of extension, figure, and colour." (Sir W. Hamilton) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
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