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Emphasis Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Emphasis? [n] intensity or forcefulness of expression; "the vehemence of his denial"; "his emphasis on civil rights" [n] the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch); "he put the stress on the wrong syllable" [n] special and significant stress by means of position or repetition e.g. [n] 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" Synonyms \| Synonyms for Emphasis: accent \| accent \| stress \| vehemence Related Terms \| Find terms related to Emphasis: accent \| accentuation \| Alexandrine \| amphibrach \| amphimacer \| anacrusis \| anapest \| antispast \| arsis \| attention \| bacchius \| beat \| cadence \| caesura \| catalexis \| chloriamb \| chloriambus \| colon \| concern \| concernment \| consequence \| consequentiality \| consideration \| counterpoint \| cretic \| dactyl \| dactylic hexameter \| diaeresis \| dimeter \| dipody \| dochmiac \| elegiac \| elegiac couplet \| elegiac pentameter \| epitrite \| excellence \| feminine caesura \| foot \| force \| grammatical accent \| gravity \| heptameter \| heptapody \| heroic couplet \| hexameter \| hexapody \| high order \| high rank \| iamb \| iambic \| iambic pentameter \| ictus \| import \| importance \| interest \| intonation \| intonation pattern \| ionic \| jingle \| level of stress \| lilt \| mark \| masculine caesura \| materiality \| measure \| merit \| meter \| metrical accent \| metrical foot \| metrical group \| metrical unit \| metrics \| metron \| molossus \| moment \| mora \| movement \| note \| numbers \| paeon \| paralipsis \| paramountcy \| pentameter \| pentapody \| period \| pitch accent \| precedence \| preeminence \| primacy \| primary stress \| priority \| proceleusmatic \| prominence \| prosodics \| prosody \| pyrrhic \| quantity \| rhetorical accent \| rhythm \| rhythmic pattern \| rhythmical accent \| rhythmical stress \| secondary stress \| self-importance \| significance \| spondee \| sprung rhythm \| stress \| stress accent \| stress arsis \| stress pattern \| superiority \| supremacy \| swing \| syzygy \| tertiary stress \| tetrameter \| tetrapody \| tetraseme \| thesis \| tone accent \| tribrach \| trimeter \| tripody \| triseme \| trochee \| underlining \| underscoring \| value \| weak stress \| weight \| worth See Also \| accentuation \| focus \| grandness \| importance \| inflection \| intensity \| intensiveness \| overemphasis \| pitch accent \| prosody \| rhetorical device \| sentence stress \| stress \| tonic accent \| word accent \| word stress Emphasis In Webster's Dictionary \Em"pha*sis\, n.; pl. {Emphases}. [L., fr. Gr. ? significance, force of expression, fr. ? to show in, indicate; ? in + ? to show. See {In}, and {Phase}.] 1. (Rhet.) 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 color. --Sir W. Hamilton.

Emphasis Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Emphasis?

[n] intensity or forcefulness of expression; "the vehemence of his denial"; "his emphasis on civil rights"
[n] the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch); "he put the stress on the wrong syllable"
[n] special and significant stress by means of position or repetition e.g.
[n] 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"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Emphasis: accent | accent | stress | vehemence

Emphasis In Webster's Dictionary

\Em"pha*sis\, n.; pl. {Emphases}. [L., fr. Gr. ?
significance, force of expression, fr. ? to show in,
indicate; ? in + ? to show. See {In}, and {Phase}.]
1. (Rhet.) 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 color.
                                               --Sir W.
                                               Hamilton.

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