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