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emphases

noun

Meaning

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

Etymology / origin

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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