emphasis

Noun

Meaning

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.

A peculiar impressiveness of expression or weight of thought; vivid representation, enforcing assent; as, to dwell on a subject with great emphasis.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

stress accent focus attention importance concentration significance priority import prominence insistence weight highlight accentuation vehemence
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Antonyms

side outside border boundary margin exterior
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Hypernyms

importance intensity inflection prosody grandness intensiveness

Hyponyms

punch focus stress accentuation pitch accent overemphasis

Related terms

emphasize emphatic emphasise emphatically emphasizing emphaticalness

Phrases with the word

give emphasis strong emphasis place emphasis change the emphasis proper emphasis give an emphasis to

Derivatives

emphases

Anagrams

misshape misphase

Examples

The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if it were. David Brinkley

The emphasis must not be on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control. Ruth Bader Ginsburg

I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement. Calvin Coolidge

I feel terrible that I once put too much emphasis on material prosperity. Benny Hinn

The difference between the arts arises because of the difference in the nature of the mediums of expression and the emphasis induced by the nature of each medium. Each means of expression has its own order of being, its own units. Hans Hofmann

Well, the musicals give emphasis to love, longing, melancholy, sadness. All of that is always there. Ismail Merchant

Close letter words and terms

Empetrum Empey emphases emphasise emphasise again emphasise once again