Definition of emphasis Emphasis

/ɛˈmfʌsʌs/ - [emfusus] - em•pha•sis

We found 13 definitions of emphasis from 6 different sources.

What does emphasis mean?

Noun Plural: emphases
emphasis - special importance or significance; "the red light gave the central figure increased emphasis"; "the room was decorated in shades of grey with distinctive red accents"
		accent
		importance, grandness the quality of being important and worthy of note; "the importance of a well-balanced diet"
emphasis - special and significant stress by means of position or repetition e.g.
		rhetorical device a use of language that creates a literary effect (but often without regard for literal significance)
emphasis - the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch); "he put the stress on the wrong syllable"
		stress, accent
		prosody, inflection the study of poetic meter and the art of versification
		accentuation the use or application of an accent; the relative prominence of syllables in a phrase or utterance
		pitch accent, tonic accent emphasis that results from pitch rather than loudness
		word accent, word stress the distribution of stresses within a polysyllabic word
emphasis - intensity or forcefulness of expression; "the vehemence of his denial"; "his emphasis on civil rights"
		vehemence
		intensiveness, intensity high level or degree; the property of being intense

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emphasis (Noun)
Special weight or forcefulness given to something considered important.
emphasis (Noun)
Special attention or prominence given to something.
emphasis (Noun)
Prominence given to a syllable or words, by raising the voice or printing in italic or underlined type.
emphasis (Noun)
Related to bold.

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

emphasis
em′fa-sis, n. stress of the voice on particular words or syllables to make the meaning clear: impressiveness of expression or weight of thought: intensity:—pl. Em′phases (-sēz).—v.t. Em′phasīse, to make emphatic.—adjs. Emphat′ic, -al, uttered with or requiring emphasis: forcible: impressive.—adv. Emphat′ically.—n. Emphat′icalness. [L.,—Gr.,—em (=en), in, into, and phasis—phaein, phainein, to show.]