emphasis
Special weight or forcefulness given to something considered important.
Noun 4 meanings
Special weight or forcefulness given to something considered important.
“He paused for emphasis before saying who had won.”
Special attention or prominence given to something.
“Anglia TV's emphasis is on Norwich and district.”
Prominence given to a syllable or words, by raising the voice or printing in italic or underlined type.
“He used a yellow highlighter to indicate where to give emphasis in his speech.”
The phonetic or phonological feature that distinguishes emphatic consonants from other consonants.
Etymology
From Latin emphasis, from Ancient Greek ἔμφασις (émphasis, “significance”), from ἐμφαίνω (emphaínō, “to present; to indicate”), from ἐν- (en-, “in”) + φαίνω (phaínō, “to show”).
EMPHASIS at a glance
EMPHASIS has 8 letters and scores 15 points in Scrabble (E 1 + M 3 + P 3 + H 4 + A 1 + S 1 + I 1 + S 1) and 16 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #5,125 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with emphasis
All rhymes- ANALYSIS11
- BASIS7
- CRISIS8
- DIAGNOSIS11
- THESIS9
- HYPOTHESIS21
- GENESIS8
- SYNTHESIS15
- TUBERCULOSIS16
- OASIS5
- CHASSIS12
- PARALYSIS14
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