Synonyms of the word

emphasis

• n. Special weight or forcefulness given to something considered important.
• n. Special attention or prominence given to something.
• n. Prominence given to a syllable or words, by raising the voice or printing in italic or underlined type.
• n. (typography) Related to bold.
• n. (phonology) The phonetic or phonological feature that distinguishes emphatic consonants from other consonants.

accent

• n. (linguistics) A higher-pitched or stronger articulation of a particular syllable of a word or phrase in…
• n. (figuratively) Emphasis or importance in general.
• n. (orthography) A mark or character used in writing, in order to indicate the place of the spoken accent,…
• n. Modulation of the voice in speaking; the manner of speaking or pronouncing; a peculiar or characteristic…
• n. (linguistics, sociolinguistics) The distinctive manner of pronouncing a language associated with a particular…
• n. (linguistics, sign languages) A distinctive manner of producing a sign language, such as someone who does…
• n. A word; a significant tone or sound.
• n. (usually plural only) Expressions in general; speech.
• n. (prosody, poetry) Stress laid on certain syllables of a verse.
• n. (music) A regularly recurring stress upon the tone to mark the beginning, and, more feebly, the third…
• n. (music) A special emphasis of a tone, even in the weaker part of the measure.
• n. (music) The rhythmical accent, which marks phrases and sections of a period.
• n. (music) The expressive emphasis and shading of a passage.
• n. (music) A mark used to represent specific stress on a note.
• n. (mathematics) A mark placed at the right hand of a letter, and a little above it, to distinguish magnitudes…
• n. (geometry) A mark at the right hand of a number, indicating minutes of a degree, seconds, etc., as in…
• n. (engineering) A mark used to denote feet and inches, as in 6' 10, meaning six feet ten inches.
• n. Emphasis laid on a part of an artistic design or composition; an emphasized detail, in particular a detail…
• n. A very small gemstone set into a piece of jewellery.
• n. A distinctive feature or quality.
• n. (archaic) Utterance.
• v. (transitive) To express the accent of vocally; to utter with accent.
• v. (transitive) To mark emphatically; to emphasize; to accentuate; to make prominent.
• v. (transitive) To mark with written accents.

grandness

• n. The state of being grand.

importance

• n. The quality or condition of being important or worthy of note.
• n. significance or prominence.
• n. personal status or standing.

inflection

• n. (grammar) A change in the form of a word that reflects a change in grammatical function.
• n. A change in pitch or tone of voice.
• n. (mathematics) A change in curvature from concave to convex or from convex to concave.
• n. A turning away from a straight course.
• n. (optometry) diffraction.

intensity

• n. The quality of being intense.
• n. The degree of strength.
• n. (physics) Time-averaged energy flux (the ratio of average power to the area through which the power "flows");…
• n. (optics) Can mean any of radiant intensity, luminous intensity or irradiance.
• n. (astronomy) Synonym of radiance.
• n. (geology) The severity of an earthquake in terms of its effects on the earth's surface, and buildings…

intensiveness

• n. The condition of being intensive.

prosody

• n. (linguistics) The study of rhythm, intonation, stress, and related attributes in speech.
• n. (poetry) The study of poetic meter; the patterns of sounds and rhythms in verse.

stress

• n. (biology) A physical, chemical, infective agent aggressing an organism.
• n. (biology) Aggression toward an organism resulting in a response in an attempt to restore previous conditions.
• n. (countable, physics) The internal distribution of force per unit area (pressure) within a body reacting…
• n. (countable, physics) Force externally applied to a body which cause internal stress within the body.
• n. (uncountable) Emotional pressure suffered by a human being or other animal.
• n. (uncountable, phonetics) The emphasis placed on a syllable of a word.
• n. (uncountable) Emphasis placed on words in speaking.
• n. (uncountable) Emphasis placed on a particular point in an argument or discussion (whether spoken or written).
• n. Obsolete form of distress.
• n. (Scotland, law) distress; the act of distraining; also, the thing distrained.
• v. To apply force to (a body or structure) causing strain.
• v. To apply emotional pressure to (a person or animal).
• v. (informal) To suffer stress; to worry or be agitated.
• v. To emphasise (a syllable of a word).
• v. To emphasise (words in speaking).
• v. To emphasise (a point) in an argument or discussion.

vehemence

• n. An intense concentration, force or power.
• n. A wild or turbulent ferocity or fury.
• n. Eagerness, fervor, excessive strong feeling.