emphasis

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noun

1. special importance or significance (Freq. 18)
- the red light gave the central figure increased emphasis
- the room was decorated in shades of grey with distinctive red accents
• Syn:
accent
• Derivationally related forms:
accentuate (for: accent), accent (for: accent), emphatic, emphasize
• Hypernyms:
importance, grandness
• Hyponyms:
stress, focus
2. intensity or forcefulness of expression (Freq. 7)
- the vehemence of his denial
- his emphasis on civil rights
• Syn:
vehemence
• Derivationally related forms:
emphatic
• Hypernyms:
intensity, intensiveness
• Hyponyms:
overemphasis
3. special and significant stress by means of position or repetition e.g. (Freq. 1)
• Derivationally related forms:
emphatic
• Hypernyms:
rhetorical device
• Hyponyms:
topicalization
4. the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch)
- he put the stress on the wrong syllable
• Syn:
stress, accent
• Derivationally related forms:
accentual (for: accent), accentuate (for: accent), accent (for: accent), emphatic, stress (for: stress)
• Hypernyms:
prosody, inflection
• Hyponyms:
accentuation, tonic accent, pitch accent, word stress, word accent, sentence stress

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  stress, accent, vehemence