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emphasis
Overview of noun emphasis
The noun emphasis has 4 senses (first 3 from tagged texts)
1. (18) emphasis, accent -- (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")
2. (7) vehemence, emphasis -- (intensity or forcefulness of expression; "the vehemence of his denial"; "his emphasis on civil rights")
3. (1) emphasis -- (special and significant stress by means of position or repetition e.g.)
4. stress, emphasis, accent -- (the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch); "he put the stress on the wrong syllable")
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun emphasis
4 senses of emphasis
Sense 1
emphasis, accent
=> importance, grandness
=> standing
=> status, position
=> state
=> attribute
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 2
vehemence, emphasis
=> intensity, intensiveness
=> degree, grade, level
=> property
=> attribute
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 3
emphasis
=> rhetorical device
=> device
=> expressive style, style
=> communication
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 4
stress, emphasis, accent
=> prosody, inflection
=> manner of speaking, speech, delivery
=> expressive style, style
=> communication
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Hyponyms of noun emphasis
4 senses of emphasis
Sense 1
emphasis, accent
=> stress, focus
Sense 2
vehemence, emphasis
=> overemphasis
Sense 3
emphasis
=> topicalization
Sense 4
stress, emphasis, accent
=> accentuation
=> tonic accent, pitch accent
=> word stress, word accent
=> sentence stress
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun emphasis
4 senses of emphasis
Sense 1
emphasis, accent
=> importance, grandness
Sense 2
vehemence, emphasis
=> intensity, intensiveness
Sense 3
emphasis
=> rhetorical device
Sense 4
stress, emphasis, accent
=> prosody, inflection
Antonyms of noun emphasis
Member Holonyms of noun emphasis
Substance Holonyms of noun emphasis
Part Holonyms of noun emphasis
Member Meronyms of noun emphasis
Substance Meronyms of noun emphasis
Part Meronyms of noun emphasis
Meronyms of noun emphasis
Holonyms of noun emphasis
Attributes of noun emphasis
Derived Forms of noun emphasis
4 senses of emphasis
Sense 1
emphasis, accent
RELATED TO>(adj) emphatic#3
=> emphatic, forceful
RELATED TO>(verb) emphasize#1
=> stress, emphasize, emphasise, punctuate, accent, accentuate
Sense 2
vehemence, emphasis
RELATED TO>(adj) emphatic#1
=> emphatic, emphasized, emphasised
RELATED TO>(adj) emphatic#3
=> emphatic, forceful
Sense 3
emphasis
RELATED TO>(adj) emphatic#3
=> emphatic, forceful
Sense 4
stress, emphasis, accent
RELATED TO>(adj) emphatic#1
=> emphatic, emphasized, emphasised
RELATED TO>(adj) emphatic#2
=> emphatic, exclamatory
Domain of noun emphasis
Domain Terms of noun emphasis
Familiarity of noun emphasis
emphasis used as a noun is uncommon (polysemy count =4)
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun emphasis
4 senses of emphasis
Sense 1
emphasis, accent
> importance, grandness
=> emphasis, accent
=> primacy
Sense 2
vehemence, emphasis
> intensity, intensiveness
=> force, forcefulness, strength
=> badness, severity, severeness
=> vehemence, emphasis
=> top
=> ferocity, fierceness, furiousness, fury, vehemence, violence, wildness
Sense 3
emphasis
> rhetorical device
=> anacoluthia, anacoluthon
=> asyndeton
=> repetition
=> anastrophe, inversion
=> antiphrasis
=> antithesis
=> antinomasia
=> apophasis
=> aposiopesis
=> apostrophe
=> catachresis
=> chiasmus
=> climax
=> conversion
=> ecphonesis, exclamation
=> emphasis
=> enallage
=> epanorthosis
=> epiplexis
=> hendiadys
=> hypallage
=> hyperbaton
=> hypozeugma
=> hypozeuxis
=> hysteron proteron
=> litotes, meiosis
=> onomatopoeia
=> paralepsis, paraleipsis, paralipsis, preterition
=> paregmenon
=> polysyndeton
=> prolepsis
=> wellerism
=> trope, figure of speech, figure, image
Sense 4
stress, emphasis, accent
> prosody, inflection
=> intonation, modulation, pitch contour
=> caesura
=> enjambment, enjambement
=> stress, emphasis, accent
=> rhythm, speech rhythm
Meronyms of noun emphasis
4 senses of emphasis
Holonyms of noun emphasis
Grep of noun emphasis
emphasis
overemphasis
Grep of verb emphasis
emphasise
Grep of adj emphasis
emphasised
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