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emphasis

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  1. (countable, uncountable) Special weight or forcefulness given to something considered important.
  2. (countable, uncountable) Special attention or prominence given to something.
  3. (countable, uncountable) Prominence given to a syllable or words, by raising the voice or printing in italic or underlined type.
  4. (countable, uncountable) The phonetic or phonological feature that distinguishes emphatic consonants from other consonants.
  5. (countable, uncountable) The use of boldface, italics, or other such formatting to highlight text.

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C2
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈɛmfəsɪs/
Etymology

From Latin emphasis, from Ancient Greek ἔμφασις (émphasis, “significance”), from ἐμφαίνω (emphaínō, “I present, I indicate”), from ἐν- (en-, “in”) + φαίνω (phaínō, “I show”).

Related words
emphasize emphasizes emphasized importance concentrating specifically concentrated

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