emphasis
Academic Word List, sublist 3.
About 39.93 uses per million words.
Meaning
- noun Special weight or forcefulness given to something considered important.
He paused for emphasis before saying who had won.
- noun Special attention or prominence given to something.
Anglia TV's emphasis is on Norwich and district.
- noun Prominence given to a syllable or words, by raising the voice or printing in italic or underlined type.
He used a yellow highlighter to indicate where to give emphasis in his speech.
- noun The phonetic or phonological feature that distinguishes emphatic consonants from other consonants.
- noun The use of boldface, italics, or other such formatting to highlight text. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
Similar words
accentuation accent vehemence stress salience significance importance important attention concentration
Often followed by
on is in added upon of was to has
Word family
emphases emphasise emphasised emphasising emphasize emphasized emphasizes emphasizing emphatic emphatically
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