emphasis
noun
[ ˈɛmfəsɪs ]
• special importance, value, or prominence given to something.
• "they placed great emphasis on the individual's freedom"
Similar:
prominence,
importance,
significance,
stress,
weight,
attention,
priority,
urgency,
force,
forcibleness,
insistence,
underlining,
underscoring,
intensity,
import,
power,
moment,
mark,
pre-eminence,
weightage,
• stress given to a word or words when speaking to indicate particular importance.
• "inflection and emphasis can change the meaning of what is said"
Origin:
late 16th century: via Latin from Greek, originally ‘appearance, show’, later denoting a figure of speech in which more is implied than is said (the original sense in English), from emphainein ‘exhibit’, from em- ‘in, within’ + phainein ‘to show’.
