emphases
Meaning of emphases
- special importance, value, or prominence given to something.
they placed great emphasis on the individual's freedom
different emphases and viewpoints
- stress given to a word or words when speaking to indicate particular importance.
inflection and emphasis can change the meaning of what is said
late 16th century: via Latin from Greek, originally ‘appearance, show’, later denoting a figure of speech in which more is implied than is said (the original sense in English), from emphainein ‘exhibit’, from em- ‘in, within’ + phainein ‘to show’.
Information about emphases
- It is a name.
- The singular form of emphases is: emphase.
- Languages in which emphases is used:
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Hyphenation of emphases
em-phases
- It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
- emphases is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
emphases synonyms
Meaning the state of being important, famous, or noticeable:
Meaning the state or fact of being of great significance or value:
Meaning the quality of being worthy of attention; importance:
Meaning pressure or tension exerted on a material object:
Meaning a body's relative mass or the quantity of matter contained by it, giving rise to a downward force; the heaviness of a person or thing:
Meaning notice taken of someone or something; the regarding of someone or something as interesting or important:
Meaning the fact or condition of being regarded or treated as more important than others:
Meaning importance requiring swift action:
Meaning strength or energy as an attribute of physical action or movement:
Meaning the fact or quality of insisting that something is the case or should be done:
Meaning draw a line under (a word or phrase) to give emphasis or indicate special type:
Meaning underline (something):
Meaning the quality of being intense:
Meaning a commodity, article, or service brought in from abroad for sale:
Meaning the ability or capacity to do something or act in a particular way:
Meaning a very brief period of time:
Meaning a small area on a surface having a different colour from its surroundings, typically one caused by damage or dirt:
Meaning a distinctive way of pronouncing a language, especially one associated with a particular country, area, or social class:
Meaning the action or fact of accentuating or of being accentuated:
Meaning a main accent or rhythmic unit in music or poetry:
Meaning a rhythmical or metrical stress:
Words that rhyme with emphases
baases, abases, airbases, anabases, bases, cabases, catabases, counterbases, databases, debases, diabases, embases, firebases, freebases, hypobases, imbases, isobases, katabases, kilobases, metabases, nucleobases, parabases, polybases, rheobases, subbases, superbases, surbases, wheelbases, bookcases, braincases, briefcases, carcases, cardcases, cases, crankcases, cycases, discases, eggcases, encases, fracases, gearcases, headcases, helicases, incases, laccases, lowercases, notecases, nutcases, pillowcases, pincases