emphasis

emphasis
n
1. stress, accent, italics, underlining, underscoring; significance, consequence, consideration, moment, import, note, mark; importance, priority, preeminence; weight, gravity, ponderosity; seriousness, solemnity; urgency, exigency, tension; pressure, insistence; affirmation, assurance, averment.
2. vital concern, matter of concern, matter of importance, matter of life and death; object of note, something special, Inf. big deal, Inf. one for the books, Inf. something to write home about.
3.(all of expression) intensity, power, strength, force, force of utterance; energy; accentuation, strong accent, vigorous enunciation, attack; clamor, uproar, outburst, outcry; exclamation, ejaculation, vociferation, vociferance; powerfulness, forcibleness; vocifer-ousness; positiveness, decidedness; peremptoriness, imperativeness, dogmatism.
4.(all of form or outline) prominence, distinctness, plainness, clearness, clarity, definiteness, definition; visibility, visibleness, perceptibility, discernibleness or discernableness; conspicuousness, conspicuity, salience, saliency.

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  • emphasis — [em′fə sis] n. pl. emphases [em′fəsēz΄] [L < Gr emphasis, an appearing in, outward appearance < emphainein, to indicate < en , in + phainein, to show < IE base * bha , to shine > OE bonian, to polish] 1. force of expression,… …   English World dictionary

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