Synonyms for emphasis
ˈɛm fə sɪs; -ˌsizem·pha·sis

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1. emphasis, accentnoun

   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"

   Synonyms:
   dialect, vehemence, stress, accent mark, accent, idiom, speech pattern

2. vehemence, emphasisnoun

   intensity or forcefulness of expression

   "the vehemence of his denial"; "his emphasis on civil rights"

   Synonyms:
   fury, stress, wildness, accent, violence, vehemence, furiousness, ferocity, fierceness

3. emphasisnoun

   special and significant stress by means of position or repetition e.g.

   Synonyms:
   vehemence, accent, stress

4. stress, emphasis, accentnoun

   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:
   tenseness, speech pattern, vehemence, stress, dialect, accent mark, accent, tension, strain, focus, idiom

Matched Categories

1. • Importance
   • Prosody
   • Rhetorical Device

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:4.0 / 2 votes

1. emphasisnoun

   Synonyms:
   stress (on certain words), force of utterance

2. emphasisnoun

   Synonyms:
   impressiveness, significance, moment, weight

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1. emphasisnoun

   Synonyms:
   accentuation

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1. List of paraphrases for "emphasis":

   focus, accent, attention, importance, insistence, stress, priority, weight, significance, focusing

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1. Michel Hockx:

   People who are aware of what education systems are like in other parts of the world are becoming increasingly impatient with the Chinese education system, it has an enormous emphasis on rote learning, classes can spend ludicrous amounts of time repeating the same things again and again, it often doesn't value creativity.

2. Mohamed Yousef:

   People watch satellite channels and look on the internet and that has changed the culture and given new courage to women in the past few years to pick up boxing gloves, the Sudan Boxing Federation asked us put more emphasis on girls to encourage them to continue in the sport.

3. Bill Ford:

   It could be regions, it could be functions, it could be areas of emphasis, we've done some big things, and we still have some big things to do.

4. Ryan Mauro:

   The Islamic State supporters view an attack on July 4th as being as legitimate as an attack on any other day but the day's parades and crowded events make it a tempting day to strike, especially during Ramadan, iSIS as a whole does not put more emphasis on July 4th over any other holiday but The ISIS ' terrorists who decide that now is the time to die are likely to prefer the holiday for added impact.

5. California Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff:

   That doesn't mean that the administration's strategy is flawless, however, and I think had we put greater emphasis and resources in trying to deal with the governance issues in Yemen, this might have been prevented.