emphasis
noun
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
special importance or significance
the red light gave the central figure increased emphasis
Types & categories
Related & opposite
Sense 2 noun
intensity or forcefulness of expression
the vehemence of his denial
Types & categories
- intensiveness hypernym
- overemphasis hyponym
Related & opposite
Sense 3 noun
special and significant stress by means of position or repetition e.g.
Types & categories
- rhetorical device hypernym
- topicalization hyponym
Related & opposite
- forceful derivation
Sense 4 noun
the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch)
he put the stress on the wrong syllable
Types & categories
- prosody hypernym
- accentuation hyponym
- tonic accent hyponym
- word stress hyponym
- sentence stress hyponym
Related & opposite
- accent derivation
- exclamatory derivation
- accentual derivation
- emphatic derivation
- accentual derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | accent |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | forceful |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | grandness |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | stress |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | forceful |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | emphatic |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | intensiveness |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | overemphasis |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | forceful |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | rhetorical device |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | topicalization |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | accent |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | exclamatory |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | accentual |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | emphatic |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | accentual |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | prosody |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | accentuation |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | tonic accent |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | word stress |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | sentence stress |